Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
1939•NR•11m•8.0•Released
HistoryDrama
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.
Director
Jacques Tourneur
Writer
Joseph Sherman
Languages
English
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Clem Bevans
Curdleface (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Albert Russell
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Production
Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer
John Nesbitt
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