Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

11m
HistoryDrama
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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.

Cast

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

Crew

Jacques Tourneur
Director
Joseph Sherman
Screenplay
Richard Goldstone
Story
Alvan Sommerfield
Story
Harry Komer
Editor
John Nesbitt
Producer
David Snell
Music

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