title: The Spanking Age
text: # The Spanking Age
  
  The Spanking Age is a 1928 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. It was the 80th Our Gang short that was released. The film was considered lost until a copy surfaced in 1990.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Mary Ann and Wheezer are the children of a widowed inventor who are forced to endure the cruelties of their stepmother (Lyle Tayo) and stepsister. The kids get even by rigging a few clever contraptions of their own. In the end the father sells a patent worth millions and thereby leaves the stepmother and stepdaughter.
  
  ## Cast
  
  ### The Gang
  
  * Mary Ann Jackson as Mary Ann
  * Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer
  * Jean Darling as Jean, the stepsister
  * Joe Cobb as Joe
  * Allen Hoskins as Farina
  * Harry Spear as Harry
  * Pete the Pup as Petie
  
  ### Additional cast
  
  * Lyle Tayo as Stepmother
  