Yankee Doodle Goes to Town
1939
History
Drama
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.
Cast
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Clem Bevans
Curdleface (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Bartender (uncredited)
Robert Dudley
Shopkeeper (uncredited)
Albert Russell
Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)
Directors
Jacques Tourneur
