Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (1939)

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

1939

History Drama

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Cast

Albert Russell as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Clem Bevans as Curdleface (uncredited)

Joe Devlin as Bartender (uncredited)

John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)

Robert Dudley as Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Crew

Harry Komer (Editor)

David Snell (Music)