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Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

★ 8.0/10•1939•11m•NR•History•Drama

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.

Jacques Tourneur · Director

Joseph Sherman · Screenplay

StatusReleased
Runtime11m
LanguageEN
Release DateJun 17, 1939

Actors

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Clem Bevans

Clem Bevans

Curdleface (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Joe Devlin

Bartender (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Robert Dudley

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Albert Russell

Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

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