Gus Meins

Directing

Gus Meins

Born — Died

1893-03-06 — 1940-08-01

Place of birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Babes in Toyland poster
6.3

Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby, enraging him.

Babes in Toyland

1934

Grandpa Goes To Town poster
10.0

Joe and Lil Higgins invest their life savings in a frontier hotel. Upon arrival, the family discovers that the establishment is smack dab in the middle of a ghost town that hasn't seen a human face in years.

Grandpa Goes To Town

1940

Kelly the Second poster
7.0

A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.

Kelly the Second

1936

Mama's Little Pirate poster
7.2

The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.

Mama's Little Pirate

1934

Scatterbrain poster
7.5

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

Scatterbrain

1940

Maids a la Mode poster
3.7

Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.

Maids a la Mode

1933

Sprucin' Up poster
6.8

A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.

Sprucin' Up

1935

Romance on the Run poster
7.0

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.

Romance on the Run

1938

For Pete's Sake! poster
7.8

The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.

For Pete's Sake!

1934

Sneak Easily poster
8.0

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.

Sneak Easily

1932

My Wife's Relatives poster
7.0

It all begins when Joe Higgins, business manager of a prosperous candy-manufacturing firm, is ordered by his pompous boss Ellis to break up the romance between Ellis' son Bill and Joe's daughter Jean. Refusing, Joe quits his job and sets up his own candy company. It's a money-losing enterprise until Joe's wife Lil loses her diamond ring in a batch of candy and offers a $5000 reward to anyone who can retrieve the ring.

My Wife's Relatives

1939

Anniversary Trouble poster
6.8

The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.

Anniversary Trouble

1935

The Mysterious Miss X poster
5.4

After being mistaken for Scotland Yard detectives, two vaudevillians (Michael Whalen, Chick Chandler) try to solve a murder in a Midwestern town.

The Mysterious Miss X

1939

The Hit Parade poster
6.3

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison, drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again?

The Hit Parade

1937

Asleep in the Feet poster
4.8

The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.

Asleep in the Feet

1933

No artwork available
8.0

Thelma volunteers Patsy as a subject for her friend who is in dental school and needs somebody to practice on.

An All American Toothache

1936

Maid in Hollywood poster
9.0

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.

Maid in Hollywood

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

I'll Be Suing You

1934

Our Gang - Comedy Festival poster
NR

Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.

Our Gang - Comedy Festival

2001

Roll Along, Cowboy poster
6.2

Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.

Roll Along, Cowboy

1937

Three Chumps Ahead poster
10.0

Thelma rushes into the apartment she shares with Patsy, excited because she's fallen in love with Archie, a rich man with yachts and a British accent. Patsy isn't impressed and less so when Archie comes calling. She does her best to sink the romance, making noise while the lovers talk and offering Limburger cheese sandwiches. In desperation, Archie calls his brother Benny, who's a sailor, and asks him to keep Patsy company. After a series of mishaps, they end up at a saloon where Patsy orders everything on the menu. Who's going to have to pay?

Three Chumps Ahead

1934

Our Gang Follies of 1936 poster
6.9

The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.

Our Gang Follies of 1936

1935

No artwork available
4.3

A milquetoast clerk is betrothed to the socialite whose aunt holds a big account with his company.

His Exciting Night

1938

Shrimps for a Day poster
6.8

A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.

Shrimps for a Day

1934

Nobody's Baby poster
6.0

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running into each other until Kitty resigns to being friends with Lena when they become hospital nurses and share a dorm room.

Nobody's Baby

1937

Should Husbands Work? poster
6.0

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy

Should Husbands Work?

1939

The First Round-Up poster
7.0

The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.

The First Round-Up

1934

Beauty and the Bus poster
8.0

The girls win a car in a raffle.

Beauty and the Bus

1933

Babes in the Goods poster
8.0

Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight.

Babes in the Goods

1934

Buster's Mix-Up poster
9.0

Buster Brown gets upset when Mary Janes invites him to a party and she gives all her attention to a new boy. Mary Jane is upset because Buster got upset. Tige sets out to get Buster back in Mary Jane's good graces. A piece of tobacco in a candy sack seems like a good idea.

Buster's Mix-Up

1926

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 poster
NR

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary Trouble (1935) to Arbor Day (1936)—with each short newly scanned and restored from the original Hal Roach 35mm film elements.

The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5

2022

The Higgins Family poster
7.0

Pa Higgins' attempts at success in the advertising business are constantly frustrated by his eccentric family.

The Higgins Family

1938

Teacher's Beau poster
7.0

The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.

Teacher's Beau

1935

Ladies in Distress poster
8.0

Alison Skipworth plays female mayor Josephine Bonney, at present having trouble dealing with her town's criminal element. Josephine enlists the aid of home town boy Braddock (Robert Livingston), a pretty tough customer himself, to take on the crooks.

Ladies in Distress

1938

Money To Burn poster
10.0

In this episode of the Higgins Family series, pandemonium ensues when Ma enters a dog biscuit contest. The prize is a whopping $50,000.

Money To Burn

1939

Honky Donkey poster
7.0

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.

Honky Donkey

1934

One Track Minds poster
7.0

Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.

One Track Minds

1933

Hill-Tillies poster
5.7

The girls camp out in the woods for a publicity stunt.

Hill-Tillies

1936

The Californian poster
7.0

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.

The Californian

1937

Buster's Big Chance poster
9.0

Buster Brown comedy with Arthur Trimble, Doreen Turner and Pete the pup

Buster's Big Chance

1928