Choo-Choo! | |
Director: | Robert F. McGowan |
Producer: | Robert F. McGowan Hal Roach |
Starring: | George McFarland |
Cinematography: | Art Lloyd |
Editing: | Richard C. Currier |
Music: | Leroy Shield |
Distributor: | MGM |
Runtime: | 20 minutes[1] |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Choo-Choo! is a 1932 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.[2] It was the 114th Our Gang short to be released.[3] It is a remake of the 1923 Our Gang film A Pleasant Journey.
Exchanging clothes with a group of runaway orphans who escape from a train, the gang ends up on a train headed for New Orleans. Pressed into service as the kids' supervisor, Travelers Aid attendant Mr. Henderson (Dell Henderson) suffers torment, especially when he tries to prevent three-year-old Spanky from socking the nose of every adult in sight.
Things come to a head late that night when Stymie accidentally releases a monkey from its cage, and the monkey in turn releases a menagerie of circus animals from the baggage car and then lights some fireworks. When the train reaches its destination the next morning, Mr. Henderson receives a telegram saying that he has the wrong children and must bring them back on a train to California.