A Tough Winter

A Tough Winter (1930)

The gang creates a huge mess after they get into a taffy-pulling contest.

Date of release
1930-06-21
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (8)
Runtime
20m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Robert F. McGowan

Casting

Interesting facts

A Tough Winter is a 1930 Our Gang short comedy film, the 99th in the series, directed by Robert F. McGowan.

Production

The first Pete the Pup was poisoned by an unknown assailant after this film.

Stepin Fetchit had signed a one-year contract with Hal Roach Studios to appear with the gang in nine episodes during the 1930-31 season. His character was included in the scripts for several episodes, including Pups Is Pups, Helping Grandma and Little Daddy, but his contract was canceled for unknown reasons and the Our Gang series continued without him.

Because of perceived racial insensitivities, A Tough Winter was eliminated from the syndicated Little Rascals television package in 1971.

Beverly Parrish was signed for two years to replace Jean Darling, who had been dismissed six months earlier, but she died suddenly a week and a half after this episode was filmed. Shirley Jean Rickett replaced her several episodes later, although she lasted only half a season.

This was the last episode to feature an orchestral music scoring, and the last to feature the theme song "That Old Gang of Mine" in the credits. The film also was the first to feature Leroy Shield's jazz-style pieces that would become an integral part of future Our Gang films.

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