Colonel Effingham's Raid

“Who Says You Can't Fight City Hall?”

5.7(6)19461h 12m

ComedyRomance

The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.

Director

Irving Pichel

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Cast

Charles Coburn

Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham

Joan Bennett

Ella Sue Dozier

William Eythe

Albert 'Al' Marbury

Allyn Joslyn

Earl Hoats

Elizabeth Patterson

Cousin Emma

Donald Meek

Doc Buden

Frank Craven

Dewey

Thurston Hall

Ed - the Mayor

Cora Witherspoon

Mrs. Clara Meigs

Emory Parnell

Joe Alsobrook

Henry Armetta

Jimmy Economy

Stephen Dunne

Professor Edward 'Ed' Bland

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

6.0

I found this to be quite an entertaining tale of the eponymous, curmudgeonly, old gent (Charles Coburn) who returns from the army to his home town, only to find that standards have gone to pot and that there is no longer any civic pride in the place. The culmination of this cultural disintegration is the proposed demolition of the dilapidated city hall on the town's rallying "Confederate Monument ...