Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

Jun 17, 1939

0h 11m

★ 0.0

Overview

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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town Trailers

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

John Nesbitt

Curdleface (uncredited)

Clem Bevans

Bartender (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

Albert Russell

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