| The Spanking Age | |
| Director: | Robert F. McGowan |
| Producer: | Hal Roach |
| Starring: | Mary Ann Jackson Bobby Hutchins Jean Darling Joe Cobb Allen Hoskins Harry Spear Pete the Pup Lyle Tayo |
| Cinematography: | Art Lloyd |
| Editing: | Richard C. Currier |
| Distributor: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent English intertitles |
The Spanking Age is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan.[1] It was the 80th Our Gang short to be released.[2] The film was considered lost until a copy surfaced in 1990.[3]
Mary Ann and Wheezer are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother (Lyle Tayo) 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 and thereby leaves the stepmother and stepdaughter.