though the our gang comedy still have their follower and i have get to say that their attempt to graduate to feature film and courtesy of hal roach come up way short . why do roach have to pick the civil war a be subject with all the attendant racism that would follow . dash southern cavalier phillips holmes take in young orphan spanky mcfarland and his young black friend buckwheat thomas after spanky inadvertently expose a card cheat on a riverboat . all be placid and serene in the old south and then the civil war come to ruin it for everybody . but even child can charm the bad in the world and there none bad than those damn yankee . they just come south and ruin it for everybody . criticize though it be for it southern viewpoint and go with the wind do make a good case for the southern cause and the black portray even though servile which they would be out of necessity be still three dimensional character . hattie mcdaniel would not have win her oscar if it be not so . butterfly mcqueen character of prissy a silly and vacuous a she be have some dimension . here though be maybe some of the bad racial stereotyping ever bring forth in hollywood . the companionship of spanky and buckwheat do show that kid get along and racial feeling be acquire not inbred . it not the servility of the black that objectionable and but there total acceptance of it . right from that horrible watermelon song and sung over the title credit and the message of general spanky be a bad one . yet it do get an oscar nomination for sound recording and probably one of the very few hal roach ever get out of the short subject field . general spanky be far from go with the wind though .