"Free Wheeling" is an American movie from 1932, so this one has its 85th anniversary this year. Sadly, this also means that all the actors in here, also the kids have been dead for a long time, but at least they left us their work. It runs for 20 minutes and is basically still from the pretty early days of sound films and like the other Rascals short films it is in black-and-white. The focus here is Stymie and Dickie, but the latter feels really irrelevant I must admit. The duo goes on a journey, where they meet monkeys, donkeys, ducks and other animals. And also some of the other members of Our Gang. The comedy is very situational and relies a lot on the protagonists' cuteness. But scenes like a kid wrestling (for fun of course) with an adult or random driving (obviously fake with the camera's wild motions) just does not cut the cake anymore. The age is not an argument as there is more entertaining stuff from decades earlier. Baffled to see this film's rating here on IMDb. Nowhere near the best Rascals short films. The only somewhat interesting thing about it is that Stymie's mother was actually played by his real mother as they must have been struggling to get Black actors at that point.
Review of Free Wheeling
