Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

11 mins | Drama, History | June 17, 1939

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.

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

11 mins | Drama, History | June 17, 1939

Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
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.
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
Directors Jacques Tourneur
Writers Alvan Sommerfield, Joseph Sherman, Richard Goldstone

Cast

John Nesbitt

as Narrator (voice)

Clem Bevans

as Curdleface (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

as Bartender (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

as Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Albert Russell

as Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)