Admirable film.

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

. . . of caring for one or more young kids suddenly thrust upon them. MILK AND MUSH is one of the most helpful films ever produced to explain exactly what to do when you find yourself in such a situation. Say you're a guy who's just finished a 30-year stretch in the state pen, and you get paroled in time to go bar-hopping during Happy Hour. Suppose that you then have the further good fortune to run across a willing lady who's not particularly choosy when she's in her cups, and you hit it off for an hour or three. Since you do not yet have a place to stay in the outside world, she kindly invites you to her home. However, the fly in your ointment pops up the next morning, when she's running a little late getting ready for another day of work under the Golden Arches, and there seem to be about a dozen Pre-school kiddies running around loose underfoot throughout her double-wide because their regular sitter has the flu. What to do? Mom wants to know if you're "good with children?" You don't want to disappoint on your first day out of the slammer, so you reply "Uh-Huh?" and Mom says "Bye, then, see you at six." How do you kill the next eight hours? What if the little tykes get hungry? Why not clobber two owls with one rock, MGM suggests, and feed these Little Rascals MUSH AND MILK?

MUSH AND MILK is a likable Our Gang short, with unremarkable plot ingredients but a general air of energy and efficiency in terms of the comedy and plotting. The story begins with the gang members attempting to make themselves something to eat, leading to some amusing barn-themed gangs with the highlight being Pete the Pup enjoying some very fresh milk.The latter part of the story involves an old timer's pension coming through which leads to him kind-heartedly treating the kids to a day at an amusement park. This latter section features some old-time actors and a fun little cameo for Laurel & Hardy fans: James Finlayson as a banker.

Mush and Milk was one of numerous school-oriented Our Gand comedies. This particular episode had, as its setting, Bleak Hill Boarding School, which bore sign saying it offered LOWEST RATES and "MOTHER'S CARE(?)" I wonder if the Dickens novel Bleak House furnished inspiration. The "MOTHER's CARE(?) logo proved what a dump this boarding school was, with Louise Emmons portraying the disagreeable old crone who headed the school, a dasmal dame if ever there were one. "Dasmal dame" is a woman who plays DOMINEERING MOTHER. Cap was sharp contrast; he was kind and understanding; Gus Leonard was just the actor for that sort of role. (He did stellar job later in "Lucky Corner" as Scotty Becket's grandpa.) Gus did not mind the silly answers that the kids gave in class, and surely appreciated Spanky's getting up to answer the phone, when James Finlayson, as Mr. Brown of First National Bank, told Cap that his back pension had arrived, something that he had long waited for (but which the crone who ran the school SCORNED). Cap's receiving this wonderful news, and his treating the kids to day at amusement park, calls to mind recent developments in MY life, to wit, improvement in living standard after settlement of Mom's estate, in form of larger apartment, new car, etc. Surely, Mush and Milk was heartwarming, especially with Cap's confidence that things would turn out all right, something that the Little Rascals came to believe.

I remember seeing this Our Gang short as a child. It was funny then. It's even funnier now seeing it as an adult. This is a great vehicle for the Our Gang kids. A very young Spanky is a stand out. His poetry reading and phone conversation scenes steal the show. The film also makes great use of young Tommy Bond, several years before he took on the role of the gang's arch nemesis Butch. His heartfelt singing could go up against Alfalfa any day. This is a wonderful example of the fine talent and comic timing the Our Gang kids had. It's one of their best shorts.