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Southern Yankee (1948)

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Hot on the heels of Columbia's The Fuller Brush Man, MGM released another Red Skelton gagfest, A Southern Yankee. Set during the Civil War, the film casts Skelton as bumbling bellboy Aubrey Filmore. Yearning to help the Northern cause by becoming an undercover spy, Aubrey succeeds beyond his wildest dreams when circumstances force him to pose as notorious Southern secret agent Major Drumman (George Coulouris), aka "The Grey Spider". Infiltrating rebel territory, our hero does his best (which is

Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Edward Sedgwick

Written By: Harry Tugend

On DVD: Dec 11, 1991

Cast

Red Skelton
Aubrey Filmore
Brian Donlevy
Curt Devlynn
Arlene Dahl
Sallyann Weatharby
George Coulouris
Maj. Jack Drumman
Lloyd Gough
Capt. Steve Lorford
John Ireland
Capt. Jed Calbern
Minor Watson
Gen. Watkins
Charles Dingle
Col. Weatharby
Art Baker
Col. Clifford M. Baker
Reed Hadley
Fred Munsey
Arthur Space
Mark Haskins
Richard Alexander
Bartender
Stanley Andrews
Shelby Bacon
Lane Chandler
Cliff Clark
Dr. Cooper
Joyce Compton
Hortense Dobson
Harry Cording
Jeff Corey
Union Cavalry Sergeant
Sam Flint
Byron Foulger
Mr. Duncan
Christian J. Frank
Edward Gargan
Male Nurse
Frank S. Hagney
Horseman
Paul Harvey
Mr. Twitchell
Weldon Heyburn
Bill Kennedy
Lt. Sheve
James Logan
Man
Ian MacDonald
Kermit Maynard
Frank McGrath
Dispatch Rider
Wally Merrill
Confederate Soldier
John Merton
Howard Mitchell
Ralph Montgomery
Bert Moorhouse
Captain
Forbes Murray
Officer
David Newell
Sentry
Paul Newlan
Man with Saber
William 'Bill' Phillips
Soldier
Addison Richards
Dr. Clayton
Carl Saxe
Sentry
David Sharpe
Confederate Officer
Ann Staunton
Nurse
Ralph Volkie
Pierre Watkin
Major
Dick Wessel
Henry Hall
Thaddeus Drumman
William Tannen
Allen Mathews
Victor Zimmerman
John Hilton
Orderly
Jack Lee
Susan Simon
Jenny
Dick Simmons
S.S. Man
Roger Moore

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Red Skelton is wonderful, as an undercover spy for the Union army. Some hilarious gags. Good support from Arlene Dahl, Brian Donlevy, George Coulouris and John Ireland. The scene where he walks across the battlefield with a confederate flag on one side, and a union flag on the other, it works until the wind changes

January 28, 2010

James Higgins

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