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

Young couple Joe and Mary Thompson love each other and their children despite the struggles that they have that are typical of most young couples early on in their married life, such as the basics of trying to make ends meet. But after Joe leaves Mary and their inner city life, she finds an unpostmarked envelope under their apartment door with her name written in Joe's handwriting. It contains a letter explaining why he left. It has primarily to do with his feeling that another part of his life was being left behind for his married life, that other life which consists of a want to travel, especially sail the south seas. The actual impetus to leave was inadvertently fostered by Mary through the birthday present she bought for him. So what actually did happen to Joe and will he ever return to his loving wife?

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