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The Old Wallop

An Our Gang short, nearly lost.

What

A lobby card for The Old Wallop, the 65th Our Gang short, credited to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Why

Robert F. McGowan directed it in 1927; it was thought destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire until a nearly complete print was found in Munich in the 1970s.

Notice

Hal Roach's series filmed children behaving like children.

“A comedy found again”

Format

The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.

Size

$29.00

Provenance

Film
The Old Wallop (1927), dir. Robert F. McGowan
Country / studio
United States · Hal Roach Studios
Format
Lobby card
Poster published
U.S. lobby card, 1927
Source
Wikimedia Commons
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Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.

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