Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (movie)

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town (movie)

  • Production country: United States of America
  • Producer: Jacques Tourneur
  • Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Genre: History, Drama
  • Release date: 6/17/1939
  • Run time: 11 min.

Movie description

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.

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John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt

Role(s): Narrator (voice)

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Clem Bevans

Clem Bevans

Role(s): Curdleface (uncredited)

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Joe Devlin

Joe Devlin

Role(s): Bartender (uncredited)

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Robert Dudley

Robert Dudley

Role(s): Shopkeeper (uncredited)

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Albert Russell

Albert Russell

Role(s): Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

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