Five Little Peppers

Battlestar — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 01:35:14 +0000

Five Little Peppers film series is a collection of 4 movies, loosely based on the Five Little Pepper novel series written by Margaret Sidney between 1881 and 1916. The movies were released in 1939 and 1940, and together would have been the family sitcom of it’s time, but instead were released to the silver screen since the television technology was still in it’s infancy.

The Pepper clan consists of widowed Mrs Pepper and her 5 children, Polly (who becomes the housewife when her mother is working), Ben (who helps as much as he can), Joey (Played by Tommie Bond from Our Gang aka Little Rascals, is playful and mischievous), Davie (kind and quiet) and Phronsie the littlest, too sweet and adorable for words.) The Peppers are terribly poor, but happy and loving.

Mr. Pepper died in a collapsed mine to which he owned half the shares. He wills those shares to his eldest daughter hoping that if she waits until she is of age before selling, by then the mine might be productive and the shares would be worth more. John Pepper was partner with J.H King junior, who also passed during the fateful cave-in that killed the Pepper family patriarch. Leaving an orphaned son, Jasper King to be raised by his father JH King Sr, a man driven by business acquisition, who rarely acknowledges the boy. JH King Sr. wants to acquire the mine shares and encourages his grandson to develop his friendship with the Peppers. A quarantine forces them to stay together and the loving family eventually wins his heart.

The movies in order are:

1939 – Five Little Peppers and How They Grew – The children meet the benefactor
1940 – Five Little Peppers at Home – The children get trapped in a mine
1940 – Out West with the Peppers – The children experience a lumber camp
1940 – Five Little Peppers in Trouble – The children are sent to a private snobbish school

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Bad News Bears

Battlestar — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 19:05:17 +0000

Walter Mathau stars as an ex-minor-league hopeful Morris Buttermaker who grumpily agrees to coach a Little League team at the behest of lawyer-councilman Bob Whitewood. Whitewood has a vendetta against the league for excluding his marginally talented son from play.

Buttermaker, is a hard-drinking, former minor-league baseball pitcher recruited to coach and manage the Bears, a Southern California Youth Baseball League team of misfit players formed as a compromise to a lawsuit brought against the league for excluding such players from other teams. Shunned by the more competitive teams (and competitive parents), the Bears are the outsiders. Eventually, the Bears make it to the championship game opposite the top-notch Yankees, who are coached by the aggressive and uncompromising Roy Turner (Vic Morrow).

Stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal

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