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The Kid from Borneo
The Kid from Borneo
Directed by	Robert F. McGowan
Written by	Carl Harbaugh; Hal Roach; H. M. Walker; Hal Yates
Produced by	F. Richard Jones; Hal Roach
Starring	Dickie Moore; George McFarland; Dorothy DeBorba; Matthew Beard; Tommy Bond; Bobby Hutchins; Dickie Jackson; Henry Hanna; Pete the Pup; John Lester Johnson; Harry Bernard; Otto Fries; Dick Gilbert; May Wallace
Cinematography	Francis Corby
Edited by	William H. Terhune
Music by	Leroy Shield; Marvin Hatley
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	April 15, 1933;
Running time	18:41
Country	United States
Language	English

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The Kid from Borneo is a short subject film in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedy series. It was produced and directed by Robert F. McGowan for Hal Roach Studios, and was originally released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on April 15, 1933.^[1] It was the 122nd Our Gang short to be released.^[2]

Plot

Dickie, Dorothy and Spanky's Uncle George is in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man from Borneo", featuring a tribal-attired man with the mentality of a seven-year-old child. The children's father refuses to let Uncle George visit, so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location. Their mother explains to the kids that Uncle George is the black sheep of the family, which is why their father does not want them to see him.

The children arrive at the show, where they mistake Bumbo, the Wild Man from Borneo, for their Uncle George. As the children attempt to talk with "Uncle George" and speculate that he might be a cannibal, Bumbo spots Stymie's candy and shouts "Yumm, Yumm Eat-Em-Up!" In an effort to take the candy, Bumbo chases the children (who are now convinced that "Uncle George" is indeed a cannibal) back to their house. Once there, Bumbo repeatedly says “Yumm, Yumm, Eat-Em-Up!” while chasing the kids throughout the house. While in the kitchen with Spanky, Bumbo consumes everything in the refrigerator (including an unopened can of sardines, metal opener and all) and a gallon of wine. The now drunk and knife-wielding Bumbo resumes chasing the children, demolishing much of the home's furniture, and repeatedly shouting "Yumm, Yumm, Eat-Em-Up". The children launch several counter-attacks against Bumbo, and after additional damage is done to the house Bumbo retreats to a bedroom after Spanky attacks him with a Roman candle shot to the derrière.

As the mother arrives and asks the kids where "Uncle George" is, she is directed to the upstairs bedroom. Initially believing the occupant of the bed is the real Uncle George, she screams upon discovering instead the primitive tribesman Bumbo, and is so frightened she jumps head-first out of the second-story window. When the father comes home soon after, Dickie says "Uncle George is upstairs." The dad rolls up his sleeves, vows to punch "Uncle George" in the head (to which Stymie replies, "Oh yeah?!"), and heads upstairs. Expecting to find Uncle George, he encounters instead Bumbo, who shortly thereafter throws the terrified father out the window. Spanky then blasts Bumbo out the same window with the Roman candle, and laughs loudly as he watches Bumbo chase his parents down the street.

Cast

The Gang

Matthew Beard as Stymie
Tommy Bond as Tommy
Dorothy DeBorba as Dorothy
Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer
George McFarland as Spanky
Dickie Moore as Dickie
Dickie Jackson as Dick
Henry Hanna as Henry
Pete the Pup as himself

Additional cast

Harry Bernard as Sideshow manager
Otto Fries as Kids' Dad
Dick Gilbert as Worker
John Lester Johnson as Bumbo, "The Wild Man from Borneo"
May Wallace as Kids' Mom

Filming Locations

At the end of the film, we see Spanky's mother and father thrown out of a window of a house. The house was located at 3527 Motor Avenue in the Palms neighborhood of Los Angeles.^[3]

References

^ Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: The Kid From Borneo". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2008.
^ Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 154–155. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ Now, Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and. "Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now". Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now. Retrieved November 10, 2024.

External links

The Kid from Borneo at IMDb

[NY_Times-1] Hal Erickson (2011). "New York Times: The Kid From Borneo". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2008.

[2] Maltin, Leonard; Bann, Richard W. (1977). Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals. Crown Publishers. pp. 154–155. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[3] Now, Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and. "Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now". Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now. Retrieved November 10, 2024.

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 | director       = [[Robert F. McGowan]]
-| producer       = [[F. Richard Jones]]<br>[[Hal Roach]]
+| writer         = [[Carl Harbaugh]]<br>[[Hal Roach]]<br>[[H. M. Walker]]<br>[[Hal Yates]]
-| writer         = [[Carl Harbaugh]]<br>Hal Roach<br>[[H. M. Walker]]<br>[[Hal Yates]]
+| producer       = [[F. Richard Jones]]<br>Hal Roach
+| starring       = [[Dickie Moore (actor)|Dickie Moore]]<br>[[George McFarland]]<br>[[Dorothy DeBorba]]<br>[[Matthew Beard (American actor)|Matthew Beard]]<br>[[Tommy Bond]]<br>[[Bobby Hutchins]]<br>Dickie Jackson<br>Henry Hanna<br>[[Pete the Pup]]<br>[[John Lester Johnson]]<br>[[Harry Bernard]]<br>[[Otto Fries]]<br>[[Dick Gilbert]]<br>[[May Wallace]]
-| starring       = [[John Lester Johnson]]: "Wild Man From Borneo" named Bumbo / mistaken Uncle George
-| music          = [[Leroy Shield]]<br>[[Marvin Hatley]]
 | cinematography = [[Francis Corby]]
-| editing        = [[William H. Terhune]]
+| editing        = William H. Terhune
+| music          = [[Leroy Shield]]<br>[[Marvin Hatley]]
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-| released       = {{USA}} [[April 15]], [[1933]]
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-| runtime        = 18:41
+| runtime        = {{duration | m=18 | s= 41}}
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+| country        = United States
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+| language       = English
-| preceded_by    = ''[[Forgotten Babies]]''
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-'''''The Kid From Borneo''''' is a [[comedy]] [[short subject]]; part of the ''[[Our Gang]]'' (Little Rascals) series. It was produced and directed by [[Robert F. McGowan]] for [[Hal Roach]], and was originally released to theaters by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] on [[April 15]], [[1933]]. <ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225667/The-Kid-From-Borneo/overview |title=New York Times: The Kid From Borneo |accessdate=2008-09-19|work=NY Times}}</ref> It was the 122nd (34th talking episode)''[[Our Gang]]'' short that was released. .
+'''''The Kid from Borneo''''' is a [[short subject]] film in the ''[[Our Gang]]'' (Little Rascals) [[comedy]] series. It was produced and directed by [[Robert F. McGowan]] for [[Hal Roach|Hal Roach Studios]], and was originally released to theaters by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] on April 15, 1933.<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225667/The-Kid-From-Borneo/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520173247/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/225667/The-Kid-From-Borneo/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |author=Hal Erickson |title=New York Times: The Kid From Borneo |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2011 |access-date=September 19, 2008}}</ref> It was the 122nd ''Our Gang'' short to be released.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |last2=Bann |first2=Richard W. |title=Our Gang: The Life and Times of the Little Rascals |date=1977 |publisher=Crown Publishers |pages=154–155 |url=https://archive.org/details/ourganglifetimes0000malt/page/154/mode/2up |access-date=3 March 2024}}</ref>
 ==Plot==
-Wheezer, Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's Uncle George is in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man From Borneo", featuring an intellectually challenged African-American man with a mentality of a seven year old child. The kids' father refuses to let the real Uncle George come over so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location. Their mother explains to the kids that Uncle George is the black sheep of the family. Stymie, who's visiting, thinks that this means that Uncle George is African-American.
+Dickie, Dorothy and Spanky's Uncle George is in town. Uncle George manages a show called "Wild Man from Borneo", featuring a tribal-attired man with the mentality of a seven-year-old child. The children's father refuses to let Uncle George visit, so their mother has the kids visit him at the show's location. Their mother explains to the kids that Uncle George is the [[black sheep]] of the family, which is why their father does not want them to see him.
-[[image:Bumbo, the Wild Man from Borneo.JPG|thumb|250px|left|Bumbo a.k.a. "Wild Man From Borneo" / mistaken Uncle George (John Lester Johnson)]]They come to the show location and another worker tells the kids that Uncle George will be right there. They mistake the Wild Man From Borneo named Bumbo (a man dressed with horns) for the real Uncle George, which is never seen as he was off running an errand. The Wild Man spots Stymie's candy, grabs it, shouts ''"Yumm Yumm Eat-Em-Up, Eat-Em-Up!!!"'', and chases the kids back to their house. When there, the wild man asks for more candy, saying ''“Yumm, yumm, Eat-Em-Up!”'' and chases the kids throughout the house. When there, the wild man runs after them, messes the house up, eats everything in the refrigerator whole (including containers plus eggs & their shells!), drinks wine, gets drunk, messes / partially destroying the house more and continues chasing the kids inebriated, wielding a kitchen knife wanting to ''"Eat-Em-Up, Eat-Em-Up"''. The Little Rascals themselves fend off the Wild Man in their usual mischievous ways. Stymie is almost done in until Dorothy cracks the ruffian over the head with a vase. The Kid From Borneo is countervailed by the Rascals, but at the expense of the destruction of some of the house by the mistaken uncle George.
+[[image:Bumbo, the Wild Man from Borneo.JPG|thumb|250px|left|Bumbo a.k.a. "Wild Man From Borneo" / mistaken Uncle George ([[John Lester Johnson]])]]The children arrive at the show, where they mistake Bumbo, the Wild Man from Borneo, for their Uncle George. As the children attempt to talk with "Uncle George" and speculate that he might be a [[Human cannibalism|cannibal]], Bumbo spots Stymie's candy and shouts "Yumm, Yumm Eat-Em-Up!" In an effort to take the candy, Bumbo chases the children (who are now convinced that "Uncle George" is indeed a cannibal) back to their house. Once there, Bumbo repeatedly says “Yumm, Yumm, Eat-Em-Up!” while chasing the kids throughout the house. While in the kitchen with Spanky, Bumbo consumes everything in the refrigerator (including an unopened can of sardines, metal opener and all) and a gallon of wine. The now drunk and knife-wielding Bumbo resumes chasing the children, demolishing much of the home's furniture, and repeatedly shouting "Yumm, Yumm, Eat-Em-Up". The children launch several counter-attacks against Bumbo, and after additional damage is done to the house Bumbo retreats to a bedroom after Spanky attacks him with a [[Roman candle (firework)|Roman candle]] shot to the derrière.
+As the mother arrives and asks the kids where "Uncle George" is, she is directed to the upstairs bedroom. Initially believing the occupant of the bed is the real Uncle George, she screams upon discovering instead the primitive tribesman Bumbo, and is so frightened she jumps head-first out of the second-story window. When the father comes home soon after, Dickie says "Uncle George is upstairs." The dad rolls up his sleeves, vows to punch "Uncle George" in the head (to which Stymie replies, "Oh yeah?!"), and heads upstairs. Expecting to find Uncle George, he encounters instead Bumbo, who shortly thereafter throws the terrified father out the window. Spanky then blasts Bumbo out the same window with the Roman candle, and laughs loudly as he watches Bumbo chase his parents down the street.
-Then, he father and mother arrive.
-The mother asks Spanky where uncle George is and he point to a bedroom door on the 2nd floor. Upon entering, only to find the Wild Man From Borneo laying in bed (recovering from the cheap wine and the kids' attacks) with the covers pulled over him. Thinking that it's her brother / the real Uncle George, she's shocked to find the primitive tribesman Bumbo and jumps out of the 2nd story window to escape the brute. Afterwards, Dickie says to the dad, "Uncle George was there and upstairs." then the dad states, ''"I was going to punch that guy's head & I"M gonna!"'' as he's rolling up his sleeves. He looks for him and finds out that it's something far worse, the actual Wild Man who throws him literally out the 2nd floor window without no effort whatsoever. Then the Wild Man is chased out of the house by Spanky armed with a roman candle by blasting him in the rear, thereby ejecting the Wild Man out of a second story window. There he joins the father and mother, where all 3 run off into the distance as Spanky giggles with his signature laugh.
-This film was withdrawn from the syndicated Little Rascals package in 1971 due to perceived racism toward African-Americans as well as mistreatment of  handicapped people. Today, ''Kid From Borneo'' is one of a handful of ''Our Gang'' films in the [[public domain]], as its copyright was not renewed in the 1990s. Thus, such a film showcases a different America indeed and is very entertaining despite its being labeled racist and mistreating the mentally handicapped.
 ==Cast==
+===The Gang===
-* [[George McFarland]] - Spanky
-* [[Dickie Moore (actor)|Dickie Moore]] - Dickie
+* [[Matthew Beard (American actor)|Matthew Beard]] as Stymie
+* [[Tommy Bond]] as Tommy
-* [[Matthew Beard (American actor)|Matthew Beard]] - Stymie
-* [[Dorothy DeBorba]] - Dorothy
+* [[Dorothy DeBorba]] as Dorothy
-* [[Tommy Bond]]
+* [[Bobby Hutchins]] as Wheezer
-* [[John Collum]] - Uh-Huh
+* [[George McFarland]] as Spanky
+* [[Dickie Moore (actor)|Dickie Moore]] as Dickie
-* [[Bobby Hutchins]] - Wheezer
-* [[Dickie Jackson]]
+* Dickie Jackson as Dick
-* [[Henry Hanna]]
+* Henry Hanna as Henry
-* [[Pete the Pup]] - Petie
+* [[Pete the Pup]] as himself
-* [[Harry Bernard]] - Sideshow manager
-* [[Dick Gilbert]] - Worker
-* [[John Lester Johnson]] - Bumbo, "The Wild Man From Borneo"
+===Additional cast===
-==Notes==
+* [[Harry Bernard]] as Sideshow manager
-A memorable scene includes Stymie hiding from The Wild Man From Borneo / Bumbo in kitchen drawers, cabinets, and even a fridge!
+* [[Otto Fries]] as Kids' Dad
+* [[Dick Gilbert]] as Worker
+* [[John Lester Johnson]] as Bumbo, "The Wild Man from Borneo"
+* [[May Wallace]] as Kids' Mom
+== Filming Locations ==
-Also The Wild Man From Borneo eats eggs: shell & all after consuming sardines in their can (metal opener also) then slams what looks like a gallon of wine in just a few seconds.
+At the end of the film, we see Spanky's mother and father thrown out of a window of a house. The house was located at 3527 Motor Avenue in the [[Palms, Los Angeles|Palms]] neighborhood of [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Now |first=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and |title=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |url=https://ChrisBungoStudios.com |access-date=2024-11-10 |website=Chris Bungo Studios Filming Locations Then and Now |language=en-US}}</ref>
-At the end, Bumbo throws out Spanky's dad with no effort like a rag doll out of a second story window!
-Where's the supposed vicious Pitbull Petey when he's needed? Answer: being good! Those were good owners then...
 ==See also==
-* [[Our Gang filmography]]
+* [[Our Gang filmography|''Our Gang'' filmography]]
+* [[Wild Men of Borneo]]
 ==References==
-{{reflist}}
+{{Reflist}}
 ==External links==
-*{{imdb title|0024361}}
+*{{IMDb title|0024213}}
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-{{DEFAULTSORT:Kid From Borneo, The}}
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 [[Category:1933 films]]
-[[Category:Our Gang films]]
-[[Category:American films]]
-[[Category:English-language films]]
 [[Category:Films directed by Robert F. McGowan]]
-[[Category:Black and white films]]
+[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
-[[Category:Comedy films]]
+[[Category:Hal Roach Studios short films]]
-[[Category:MGM films]]
+[[Category:1933 comedy films]]
+[[Category:Our Gang films]]
+[[Category:Films with screenplays by H. M. Walker]]
+[[Category:1933 short films]]
+[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
+[[Category:1930s American films]]
+[[Category:Films scored by Marvin Hatley]]
+[[Category:Films scored by Leroy Shield]]
+[[Category:English-language short films]]