Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Born: August 9, 1920
Died: July 26, 1980
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins was born on August 9, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Allen Clayton Hoskins. He was an actor, known for Pups Is Pups (1930), Shivering Shakespeare(1930) and Bear Shooters (1930). He was married to Frances. Has two children: a daughter Candy and a son Chris. He died on July 26, 1980 in Oakland, California, USA. Brother of actress Jannie Hoskins. 

On screen from the age of 14 months, he acquired the name 'Farina' from the cereal. Member of 'Our Gang' in 106 episodes between 1922 and 1931. His last "Our Gang" contract with the Hal Roach Studios called for a weekly salary of $350 a week; far more than any of the other kids (even Jackie Cooper) were paid at that time.

Served in the military during World War II. In his later years, made a successful career at Los Angeles area medical centers, helping disabled young people afflicted with drug problems and mental illnesses.

Movies for Allen 'Farina' Hoskins...

The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
Title: The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2
Released: August 3, 2021
Type: Movie
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 2 contains the next 11 Our Gang sound shorts produced by Roach at the dawn of the "talkie era": Pups is Pups (1930) to Dogs is Dogs (1931) -- with each short newly scanned and restored from original Hal Roach 35mm film elements. A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 2 features the talents of Jackie Cooper, Allen “Farina” Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Dorothy De Borba, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, as well as June Marlowe as the unforgettable Miss Crabtree.
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Farina
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
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The Our Gang Story
Title: The Our Gang Story
Character: Farina (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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After the Thin Man
Title: After the Thin Man
Character: Screwy (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
Title: The Gorgeous Hussy
Character: Pageboy at Ball (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
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Reckless
Title: Reckless
Character: Gold Dust
Released: April 19, 1935
Type: Movie
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
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The Mayor of Hell
Title: The Mayor of Hell
Character: Joliet "Smoke" Hemingway
Released: June 24, 1933
Type: Movie
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
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The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Title: The Life of Jimmy Dolan
Character: Sam
Released: June 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him. Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy. As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change his ways.
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Fish Hooky
Title: Fish Hooky
Character: Farina
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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You Said a Mouthful
Title: You Said a Mouthful
Character: Sam Wellington
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the clerk is the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit, she enters him in a 20 mile swim race.
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Fly My Kite
Title: Fly My Kite
Character: Farina
Released: May 30, 1931
Type: Movie
A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.
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Bargain Day
Title: Bargain Day
Character: Farina
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
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The Stolen Jools
Title: The Stolen Jools
Character: 'Farina'
Released: April 4, 1931
Type: Movie
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
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Little Daddy
Title: Little Daddy
Character: Farina
Released: March 28, 1931
Type: Movie
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
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Love Business
Title: Love Business
Character: Farina
Released: February 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
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Helping Grandma
Title: Helping Grandma
Character: Farina
Released: January 3, 1931
Type: Movie
The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.
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School's Out
Title: School's Out
Character: Farina
Released: November 21, 1930
Type: Movie
The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".
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Teacher's Pet
Title: Teacher's Pet
Character: Farina
Released: October 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
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Pups Is Pups
Title: Pups Is Pups
Character: Farina
Released: August 30, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
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A Tough Winter
Title: A Tough Winter
Character: Farina
Released: June 21, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.
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Bear Shooters
Title: Bear Shooters
Character: Farina
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang decides to go camping with a little bear hunting on the side. A pair of poachers decides to try and scare them off with a gorilla suit but the gang decides to try and capture the gorilla instead.
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When the Wind Blows
Title: When the Wind Blows
Character: Farina
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of getting back inside without his parents finding out. When his parents mistake his noises for a burglar, a local policeman is called, but he seems incompetent to catch either the phony burglar or the real one who has shown up in the meantime
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The Ghosts
Title: The Ghosts
Character: Farina
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
Juanito gets locked out of his house in the middle of a windy night. Spanish language version of When the Wind Blows (1930)
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The First Seven Years
Title: The First Seven Years
Character: Farina
Released: March 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Jackie gets in a duel over the affections of Mary Ann.
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Shivering Shakespeare
Title: Shivering Shakespeare
Character: Farina
Released: January 25, 1930
Type: Movie
The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids disrupt the show. The pie fight is given a new twist by use of some slow motion sequences.
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Moan & Groan, Inc.
Title: Moan & Groan, Inc.
Character: Farina
Released: December 7, 1929
Type: Movie
The gang goes digging for treasure in an old abandoned house against Kennedy the Cop's wishes.
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Saturday's Lesson
Title: Saturday's Lesson
Character: Farina
Released: November 9, 1929
Type: Movie
A man dressed as the devil scares the gang into minding their mothers.
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Bouncing Babies
Title: Bouncing Babies
Character: Farina
Released: October 11, 1929
Type: Movie
With Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back.
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Cat, Dog & Co.
Title: Cat, Dog & Co.
Character: Farina
Released: September 14, 1929
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe, and friends use dogs to power their "roadsters," but following a lesson from the head of the Be Kind to Animals Society, they make it their cause to rescue animals from bad treatment. Joe even manages to find patience for a nagging flea that persists in biting him. Meanwhile, Wheezer, who has been tormenting animals with his games, dreams that the animals have turned the tables on him.
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Boxing Gloves
Title: Boxing Gloves
Character: Farina
Released: September 9, 1929
Type: Movie
The Rascals have a boxing arena that could pack them in if they could find fighters who would actually mix it up. Harry and Farina notice a rivalry between two very large young kids, Joe and Chubby, that would fill the bill if only the two heavyweights would put aside their gentle natures. Farina gets an idea: tell each of the lads that the other will take a dive in the second round. So the fight begins and the stands are filled; but will the combatants actually throw a punch? Ernie has one more trick up his sleeve to get the fists flying and the crowd on its feet. Sweet science indeed.
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Lazy Days
Title: Lazy Days
Character: Farina
Released: August 24, 1929
Type: Movie
While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.
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Railroadin'
Title: Railroadin'
Character: Farina
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
The gang is playing around the railroad station, and Joe and Chubby's father, an engineer, lectures against the kids playing in such a dangerous area. True to his word, after Joe and Chubby's father leaves, a crazy man starts a train with most of the kids on it, save for Farina who is nearly run over several times. Once Farina manages to climb aboard himself, the kids attempt to stop the runaway locomotive, but have no luck until the engine crashes into a grocery truck. As it turns out, however, the entire incident is revealed to be a dream Farina had as Joe and Chubby's father lectured the kids about rail-yard safety.
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Little Mother
Title: Little Mother
Character: Farina
Released: June 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Little Mother is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Little Mother was the 87th Our Gang short to be released. A silent film, it followed Our Gang's first sound film, Small Talk, on the release schedule.
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Small Talk
Title: Small Talk
Character: Farina
Released: May 18, 1929
Type: Movie
The gang are all orphans, hoping to be adopted by nice families where "spinach is not on the menu". Wheezer, the youngest child, gets adopted by a wealthy couple, while his older sister Mary Ann does not. The gang all comes to visit Wheezer in his new home, setting off an alarm that causes the police and the fire department to come over. At that time, Wheezer's new mother and father decide to adopt Mary Ann as well. The couple's friends all each adopt a child as well; even Farina is adopted by the maid at Wheezer's new home.
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Wiggle Your Ears
Title: Wiggle Your Ears
Character: Farina
Released: April 5, 1929
Type: Movie
This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear kick her behind, spend her money on him, and forces her to push his kiddie car, all so that she could get the occasional joy of watching Harry "Wiggle His Ears." Armchair Freudians and double-entendre fans will quickly get the "joke" here. He quickly dumps Mary for pintsized blonde bombshell Jean Darling. What happens? You'll see.
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The Holy Terror
Title: The Holy Terror
Character: Farina
Released: March 9, 1929
Type: Movie
Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.
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Noisy Noises
Title: Noisy Noises
Character: Farina
Released: February 9, 1929
Type: Movie
Joe Cobb is suffering through a toothache as well as having to babysit his little brother Rupert who won't stop crying. Every effort to calm Rupert is undone by an immediate commotion to wake him up. Joe rocks him to sleep, but then the neighbor starts playing his bass fiddle. Joe then rocks the cradle so hard it falls apart, and he trips and stumbles moving Rupert to the baby carriage, which subsequently rolls down hill through traffic with Rupert and a neighbor's monkey enjoying the ride.
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Election Day
Title: Election Day
Character: Farina
Released: January 12, 1929
Type: Movie
This film revolves around Election Day, a day on which Jay R. and Joe are fighting to get votes. They warn the kids that they'll be socked in the jaw if they don't vote for them, but the kids are just trying to go about their business, namely Farina. His mother wants him to deliver laundry to her clients, but he can't go anywhere without being harassed by the gang. To escape them, he dons several costumes including that as an older woman, a dancer, and a scarecrow.
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Fast Freight
Title: Fast Freight
Character: Farina
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
Fast Freight is a 1929 Our Gang short silent comedy film. It was the 85th Our Gang short that was released. The gang takes a tramp's train ride and end up taking shelter in a haunter house.
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The Spanking Age
Title: The Spanking Age
Character: Farina
Released: December 15, 1928
Type: Movie
Mary Ann Jackson and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions. Before that, the Our Gang kids bring out out the old "alum" gag, along with several other tried-and-true comedy bits.
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The Ol' Gray Hoss
Title: The Ol' Gray Hoss
Character: Farina
Released: October 19, 1928
Type: Movie
This story revolves around an old man who feels alone in the world aside from the gang who keeps him company and his old horse. He runs a horse and buggy business, but he has new competition: an auto taxi. The gang helps him to maintain his job by sabotaging the other man's.
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Growing Pains
Title: Growing Pains
Character: Farina
Released: September 22, 1928
Type: Movie
Mary Ann has a liking toward Wheezer. Her mother tells her that if she gives him cod liver oil, he can become a giant. A circus giant comes to board, learns the plan and substitutes for Wheezer.
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School Begins
Title: School Begins
Character: Farina
Released: September 16, 1928
Type: Movie
One of a handful of currently unavailable Hal Roach/MGM “Our Gang” silent films, School Begins was a series of gags built around the unenviable ritual of returning to school during the first week of September. School begins and some gang members are forging notes from their mother wanting out. Then too-young Wheezer parades by the school with escaped circus seals following him, causing a disturbance.
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Crazy House
Title: Crazy House
Character: Farina
Released: June 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Crazy House is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 76th Our Gang short that was released. It was the final appearance of Jackie Condon, who was with the gang since the pilot episode of Our Gang in 1922.
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Fair and Muddy
Title: Fair and Muddy
Character: Farina
Released: May 5, 1928
Type: Movie
Living in an orphanage, the gang has to deal with Amanda, a child-hating spinster. To receive a bequest from a rich uncle, she must acquire a child. Thinking suspicion, the gang causes all kinds of havoc toward her including a mud battle.
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Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
Title: Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
Character: Farina
Released: April 6, 1928
Type: Movie
The kids decide to put on a circus at the local hotel. Seeing various pets and other domestic animals dressed up like circus animals was very cute--particularly the dachshund dressed as a seal! However, the animals all get loose and terrorize the hotel guests--including a drunk played by Oliver Hardy.
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Edison, Marconi & Co.
Title: Edison, Marconi & Co.
Character: Farina
Released: March 9, 1928
Type: Movie
With Jay Edison as the inventor and Wheezer his assistant, the gang contrived an automobile of unusual construction; an automobile that will look like a submarine.
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The Smile Wins
Title: The Smile Wins
Character: Farina
Released: February 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Farina's mother is very ill and the mortgage is due. He tries to take over her laundry business, but the kids just wreck the clothes. Joe takes pity and devises a scheme to make money: the gang builds their own oil well.
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Rainy Days
Title: Rainy Days
Character: Farina
Released: February 12, 1928
Type: Movie
Jay and Wheezer are left alone on a rainy afternoon when Mom goes out to run errands. But when their friends drop by and trash the place, the boys must struggle to clean up before Mom returns.
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Spook Spoofing
Title: Spook Spoofing
Character: Farina
Released: January 14, 1928
Type: Movie
As a joke, several members of the gang convince Farina, who is "brave but superstitious", that he's caused the demise of a young acquaintance and must therefore lay the body (actually still very alive) to rest in the old burying ground, under the watchful eye of "the graveyard witch". The joke backfires spectacularly on the pranksters.
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Playin' Hookey
Title: Playin' Hookey
Character: Farina
Released: January 2, 1928
Type: Movie
Wheezer gets excited watching his dog Pansy attack and rip apart the chickens and furniture in the back yard. His mother is upset, and his father takes his rifle to shoot the dog. Meanwhile, Joe Cobb has taught Pansy to play dead, and after the deed is done, he hides the dog at Farina's house.
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Dog Heaven
Title: Dog Heaven
Character: Farina
Released: December 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in flashback Pete tells him of his sorrows; Pete becomes a drunkard and is chased away by Joe. The last straw comes when another dog knocks Joe's sweetheart into a lake and Pete is blamed for it. Will Pete carry through with his suicide or will Joe apologize?
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Heebee Jeebees
Title: Heebee Jeebees
Character: Farina
Released: November 19, 1927
Type: Movie
A hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off, the gang returns back to their usual roles. But then while at an afternoon tea social , the spell returned, ruining a perfectly good afternoon.
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Chicken Feed
Title: Chicken Feed
Character: Farina
Released: November 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Chicken Feed is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 66th Our Gang short subject released. The kids go to a magic show and decides to try a little magic of their own.
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The Old Wallop
Title: The Old Wallop
Character: Farina
Released: October 21, 1927
Type: Movie
Wheezer likes to hit people on the nose, and his folks encourage him to do so. Then the Gang wandering off climbing atop a construction site while the builders have gone to lunch.
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Yale vs. Harvard
Title: Yale vs. Harvard
Character: Farina
Released: September 24, 1927
Type: Movie
The Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics.
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Olympic Games
Title: Olympic Games
Character: Farina
Released: September 11, 1927
Type: Movie
While the world watches the Olympic Games in Stockholm, the Rascals gather at the flats for their own games. Whether it's the shot put, the hurdles, the pole vault, or the high jump, not much goes right. There's a deep mud hole that catches several of the kids, and someone out there keeps giving them the razzberry. It's young Wheezer hiding out of sight with his dog Punch, but the kids think it's another boy, so every time they hear the Bronx cheer, they chase the innocent lad and give him a thumping.
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Baby Brother
Title: Baby Brother
Character: Farina
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
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The Glorious Fourth
Title: The Glorious Fourth
Character: Farina
Released: June 26, 1927
Type: Movie
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
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Tired Business Men
Title: Tired Business Men
Character: Farina
Released: May 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Tired Business Men is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 60th Our Gang short subject released.
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Love My Dog
Title: Love My Dog
Character: Farina
Released: April 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Farina Hoskins discovers a stray dog. Joe Cobb suggests that he and Farina take the dog to the gang's dog show. In the middle of the show, the dogcatchers crack down on picking up all unlicensed strays to control a hydrophobia epidemic; the injection to control the disease costs five dollars.
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Ten Years Old
Title: Ten Years Old
Character: Farina
Released: March 13, 1927
Type: Movie
Ten Years Old is a 1927 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. It was the 58th Our Gang short subject released. It was remade as Birthday Blues in 1932. Nobody comes to Joe's birthday party so he goes to the rich kid's party with his own special cake.
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Seeing the World
Title: Seeing the World
Character: Farina
Released: February 13, 1927
Type: Movie
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, London, and finally Paris, where problems arise on top of the Eiffel Tower.
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Bring Home the Turkey
Title: Bring Home the Turkey
Character: Farina
Released: January 16, 1927
Type: Movie
Habitually mistreated at the deceptively named Happyland Home Orphanage, the Our Gang kids find a loyal and kindhearted friend in the form of a black grownup named Uncle Tom. Alas, Tom's own children -- including real-life siblings Allen "Farina" Hoskins and Jannie "Mango" Hoskins -- are carted off to Happyland by the cold-hearted county officials. Farina, Mango, and the other kids escape the cruel orphanage in the dead of night, while Uncle Tom, preparing for their return, "borrows" food, clothes, and furnishings from various merchants.
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45 Minutes from Hollywood
Title: 45 Minutes from Hollywood
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 26, 1926
Type: Movie
A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.
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Telling Whoppers
Title: Telling Whoppers
Character: Farina
Released: December 19, 1926
Type: Movie
Farina and Joe fib to the gang that they've beaten up the neighborhood bully. Later, they hear he's been murdered and think they'll get the blame.
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War Feathers
Title: War Feathers
Character: Farina
Released: November 20, 1926
Type: Movie
While on a cross-country train trip, the Our Gang kids drive the rest of the passengers crazy with a never-ending game of cowboys and Indians. During a stopover in the sleepy town of Red Dog, the kids disembark in hopes of savoring a taste of genuine Western life. They get more than they bargained for when a trio of bandits rides into town for a showdown with the local sherff.
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The Fourth Alarm
Title: The Fourth Alarm
Character: Farina
Released: August 11, 1926
Type: Movie
The rascals once again, now as a plumbers.
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Shivering Spooks
Title: Shivering Spooks
Character: Farina
Released: August 7, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang's hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang's hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. The "suckers" find out they are being cheated and run to get the cops to book the guys. The guys find out that the kids are in the house, and one dresses up in a ghost costume and chases the kids throughout the house.
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Thundering Fleas
Title: Thundering Fleas
Character: Farina
Released: July 18, 1926
Type: Movie
The kids from Our Gang have to attend a wedding, and they bring along their flea collection--which gets loose.
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Uncle Tom's Uncle
Title: Uncle Tom's Uncle
Character: Farina / 'Topsy'
Released: May 29, 1926
Type: Movie
The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mother thinks the back yard needs cleaning, and there are several interruptions when they lose a leading character. Mickey plays Simon Legree; Mary as Eva; Joe as Uncle Tom; and Farina essays the role of Topsy.
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Baby Clothes
Title: Baby Clothes
Character: Farina
Released: April 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Mr. and Mrs. Weedle are desperate to find two babies, for their rich uncle has sent them money for years thinking they have children. Now that he’s coming into town, the couple must find a pair of babies as soon as possible. The Our Gang kids are ready for the job, but a 27-year old midget is also in the running for the job and he doesn’t play fairly.
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Monkey Business
Title: Monkey Business
Character: Farina
Released: March 21, 1926
Type: Movie
An abused chimpanzee escapes from a zoo. On the run, he meets Farina, running away from home and his battling parents. The two become friends and inspire the rest of the gang to put on a show to make money from neighborhood kids. But the chimp has his own idea and runs off creating havoc all over town until chased down by the local cops.
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Buried Treasure
Title: Buried Treasure
Character: Farina
Released: February 13, 1926
Type: Movie
The Rascals take their homemade boat on a search for treasure and crash a movie set.
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Good Cheer
Title: Good Cheer
Character: Farina
Released: January 9, 1926
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, the Gang copes with hardships, helps capture a gang of thieves, and learns that Santa Claus really exists for those who wish fervently enough.
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One Wild Ride
Title: One Wild Ride
Character: Farina
Released: December 5, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang has a taxi, consisting of an old Model T with no engine, pushed by a horse. When the owner takes his horse back, they must rely on motorists to tow them to the top of the hill so they can coast down. Little Farina borrows the car and it runs out of control all over town, causing mayhem everywhere it goes.
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Better Movies
Title: Better Movies
Character: Farina
Released: November 1, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang decided to go into the movie-making business, using all kinds of sets and props. There were problems as those not involved are trying to ruin their business by playing pranks and even insisting the police to close them down.
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Your Own Back Yard
Title: Your Own Back Yard
Character: Farina
Released: September 26, 1925
Type: Movie
Your Own Back Yard is a 1925 American short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 43rd Our Gang short subject released. Farina is having a very bad day, especially by his friends-very cruel playing nasty tricks, etc. Heeding his mother's advice to stay "in your own back yard," he does just that, feeding jumping beans to his chickens.
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Mary, Queen of Tots
Title: Mary, Queen of Tots
Character: Farina / Assistant in Dream Sequence
Released: August 22, 1925
Type: Movie
A couple makes dolls modeled on neighborhood kids. A gardener at a mansion buys four of them for Mary, the girl of the house. He's her only friend: her parents neglect her for work and card games and her governess is humorless. Mary loves the dolls and dreams of them during her nap. While Mary sleeps, the governess throws the dolls in the dust bin. Mary wakes and goes searching - outside she runs into the very same four kids who were the dolls' models, and she thinks she's still dreaming...
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Boys Will Be Joys
Title: Boys Will Be Joys
Character: Fanna
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey's got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?
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Official Officers
Title: Official Officers
Character: Farina
Released: June 29, 1925
Type: Movie
The kids in the tenements have no place to play except in streets where traffic is a hazard. Mickey gets the idea of building barricades to give our gang space to play at an intersection, but a beat cop, the nasty "Hard-Boiled" McManus, puts a quick end to that. A sympathetic constable and a detective who has kids of his own give our gang a chance to help law enforcement. The little rascals wear uniforms and keep an eye on things: Joe, for instance, eyes the bananas at Tony's fruit stand. When the now-fired McManus returns and seeks revenge, the junior police force and their adult colleagues are put to the test.
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Shootin' Injuns
Title: Shootin' Injuns
Character: Farina
Released: May 2, 1925
Type: Movie
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing the game, including objections from parents, and as such they decide to postpone it until the wee hours of the next morning and play it in the streets of the neighborhood. As it begins to rain during the middle of their shootout that morning, they decide to take refuge in a neighborhood house. What they are unaware of is that the house belongs to inventor W.R. Jones, who rigged it to be a "magnetic house", a demonstration for a possible amusement park attraction. Not knowing about the house's rigged contraptions leads to a lot of misadventures for the gang not related to shooting Indians as they try to figure out what's happening around them.
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The Love Bug
Title: The Love Bug
Character: Farina
Released: April 24, 1925
Type: Movie
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma comes to their rescue.
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Dog Days
Title: Dog Days
Character: Farina
Released: March 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother.
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Circus Fever
Title: Circus Fever
Character: Farina
Released: February 7, 1925
Type: Movie
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the festivities.
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The Big Town
Title: The Big Town
Character: Farina
Released: January 10, 1925
Type: Movie
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City. After seeing some of the sites on foot, they steal a 5th Avenue Bus, and are caught by the police.
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The Mysterious Mystery!
Title: The Mysterious Mystery!
Character: Farina
Released: December 12, 1924
Type: Movie
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids who has gone missing. While trying to find the kid the gang must also try and avoid a dumb detective also working the case.
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Fast Company
Title: Fast Company
Character: Farina
Released: November 15, 1924
Type: Movie
Fast Company is the sixteenth short in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series created by Hal Roach. Many of the boys here want to go swimming but Mickey has to make a delivery. On the way, he encounters a rich boy waiting at a station for his mom and as they get to talking they trade places since Mickey has never seen the inside of a hotel and the rich kid just wants to play. When the rich kid returns to the gang with the goat-pulling wagon, however, they resolve to go where Mickey is which is where the fun really begins...
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The Sun Down Limited
Title: The Sun Down Limited
Character: Farina
Released: September 21, 1924
Type: Movie
The gang creates their own railroad after being chased from a local railyard, and competes with Toughie.
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It's a Bear
Title: It's a Bear
Character: Farina
Released: July 27, 1924
Type: Movie
The kids pretend to be hunting a variety of animals when they're invited to a farm where they try to capture real game. This gets boring after a while so they decide to try and track a bear. Soon the bear is stalking them!
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Jubilo, Jr.
Title: Jubilo, Jr.
Character: Fanna
Released: June 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A young boy, determined to make money enough to buy his mother a birthday present, finds a variety of odd jobs and finally starts up a makeshift circus.
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Cradle Robbers
Title: Cradle Robbers
Character: Farina
Released: June 1, 1924
Type: Movie
The boys cannot go fishing because they have to take care of their baby brothers and sisters. After trying unsuccessfully to sell their babies to some traveling gypsies, Mary shows up and tells them that her little sister just won a prize at the baby show.
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Commencement Day
Title: Commencement Day
Character: Farina
Released: May 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Centering around the closing days of the school year, this is a view into the life of a one-room schoolhouse. This type of learning institution has long vanished from the landscape being continued in Amish communities and such. We get kid-centric amusement as various skills of music are performed by youngsters who were probably coaxed by parents to take up the instruments used.
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Seein' Things
Title: Seein' Things
Character: Farina
Released: April 5, 1924
Type: Movie
At the start we learn that Farina is suffering nightmares each time he eats meat. His mom tells him to stay away from the stuff but he loves it so much he sneaks out of the house and ends up eating several chickens. That night she puts him to bed and sure enough he begins to have nightmares that the other kids are chasing him. Basing a kids comedy around one kid having nightmares and being stalked by other kids might seem rather bizarre but this was 1924 we're talking about.
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The Buccaneers
Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Farina
Released: March 9, 1924
Type: Movie
This Our Gang short has the group playing pirates and building a ship to sail in. Once the ship hits water it sinks but they end up on another boat when the dog unties the rope and the kids head off to sea where they must be rescued by the Navy.
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Big Business
Title: Big Business
Character: Farina
Released: February 9, 1924
Type: Movie
In this short the kids are managing their own barber shop, with harrowing results. No one gets hurt, but most of the customers wind up bald or close to it: one kid even gets a prematurely fashionable Mohawk! Scenes involving close calls with sharp scissors might make some viewers wince, while the manicurist uses a device that looks like a wire-cutter.
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Tire Trouble
Title: Tire Trouble
Character: Farina
Released: January 12, 1924
Type: Movie
This Hal Roach comedy short, Tire Trouble, is the twenty-second entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series. In this one, Mickey drives his own makeshift car with Mary, Joe, and Jackie in tow. Among the unusual gadgets: a boxing glove attached to the outside front that knocks out any passersby! When they stop where Sunshine Sammy and Farina are standing, Sammy gets punched by that glove twice and also gets hit by the front grille that moves! He's making a delivery to a rich man named J. William McAllister. This man believes he's very sick because of what his doctor and wife says but after the gang come in uninvited, they look at him and think otherwise.
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Sunday Calm
Title: Sunday Calm
Character: Farina
Released: December 15, 1923
Type: Movie
The kids gets taken on a Sunday picnic in this early three-reeler and after the first ten minutes, manage to elude the adults in this typically charming effort from Our Gang.
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Derby Day
Title: Derby Day
Character: Farina
Released: November 17, 1923
Type: Movie
After the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own.
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Stage Fright
Title: Stage Fright
Character: Farina
Released: October 20, 1923
Type: Movie
Author Fawn Ochletree stages a charity performance of her latest play, a Romanesque epic. The gang and other neighborhood kids are forced into starring in the play, much to the chagrin of the gang. They are completely unable to remember their lines, and struggle with maintaing their composure during the more serious moments of the melodrama. Finally, Jackie sets off a slew of firecrackers as the finale, scaring all involved.
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Lodge Night
Title: Lodge Night
Character: Farina
Released: July 28, 1923
Type: Movie
This one has to be seen to be believed. Apparently the gang has witnessed a Ku Klux Klan meeting. They decide to form their own lodge. They call themselves the Cluck Cluck Clams. There is nothing racist about their lodge, which includes member Sunshine Sammy Morrison. The film ends with a chase. The gang gets tangled up with bank robbers. Sunshine Sammy gets his uncle and his pals to chase the bank robbers with the gang riding along.
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Dogs of War!
Title: Dogs of War!
Character: Farina
Released: July 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film.
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Back Stage
Title: Back Stage
Character: Farina
Released: June 2, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang operates a donkey-propelled tour bus. Later, a cut-rate vaudeville producer hires them to help out with his show, which they wreck.
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Boys to Board
Title: Boys to Board
Character: Farina
Released: April 7, 1923
Type: Movie
A kindly old schoolteacher helps the gang escape from a cruel boarding school, but they wind up in a bootlegger's booby-trapped house.
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A Pleasant Journey
Title: A Pleasant Journey
Character: Farina
Released: March 25, 1923
Type: Movie
Ernie and Farina anger the police force with their shoeshine scheme. Later, the gang switches places with some runaways about to board a train.
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The Big Show
Title: The Big Show
Character: Farina
Released: February 24, 1923
Type: Movie
The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a "movie," which is really a clever stage performance.
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The Cobbler
Title: The Cobbler
Character: Farina
Released: February 18, 1923
Type: Movie
A cobbler receives his back pension and invites the gang to celebrate with a picnic, but his car stalls along the way.
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The Champeen
Title: The Champeen
Character: Farina
Released: January 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Mickey and Jackie feud over Mary, so Sammy schedules a championship bout between the two rivals.
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Saturday Morning
Title: Saturday Morning
Character: Maple
Released: December 3, 1922
Type: Movie
The Rascals, feeling unloved at home, decide to become pirates. Meanwhile, a mother, an aunt and a valet join the cops in searching for the runaways.
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Young Sherlocks
Title: Young Sherlocks
Character: Farina
Released: November 25, 1922
Type: Movie
The Mystic J.J.J.'s challenge Ernie's bravery; he spins a tale of saving a rich young girl from kidnappers and of creating a utopia called Freetown.
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Fire Fighters
Title: Fire Fighters
Character: Farina
Released: October 8, 1922
Type: Movie
The gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
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One Terrible Day
Title: One Terrible Day
Character: Farina
Released: September 9, 1922
Type: Movie
Mrs. Pennington Van Renssalaer, a publicity-minded society matron, sponsors a children's outing, much to her and her chauffeur's eventual regret.