Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Directors

Irving Pichel

Cast

Allyn Joslyn, Charles Coburn, Cora Witherspoon, Donald Meek, Elizabeth Patterson, Emory Parnell, Frank Craven, Henry Armetta, Joan Bennett, Roy Roberts, Thurston Hall, William Eythe

The story

Newly retired United States Army Colonel William Seaborn Effingham returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia, in 1940. He meets his second cousin, once removed, Albert Marbury, a reporter for the Leader newspaper. The next day, Confederate Memorial Day, Mayor Bill Silk announces he intends to rename the town Confederate Monument Square after an undistinguished deceased politician named Pud Toolen.

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