Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

Name: Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
Genre: History, Drama
Released: 1939
Duration: 11 min
Rating: 8

1939 · 11 min

History · Drama

★ 8.0

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Made just before America would be forced into the Second World War, this short subject is a brief dramatized history of American democracy. It targets a perceived threat to democracy from board room and soapbox fascists who advocated a government based upon contemporaneous European models.

Crew

Director Jacques Tourneur
Screenplay Joseph Sherman
Story Richard Goldstone
Story Alvan Sommerfield

Cast

J
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Clem Bevans
Curdleface (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
A
Albert Russell
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Crew

Director — Jacques Tourneur
Screenplay — Joseph Sherman
Story — Richard Goldstone
Story — Alvan Sommerfield

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