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A Southern Yankee is a american film of genre War directed by Edward Sedgwick released in USA on 5 august 1948 with Red Skelton
A Southern Yankee (1948)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 5 august 1948
Length 1h30
Directed by Edward Sedgwick
OriginUSA
Themes Political films
Rating65%
A Southern Yankee (1948) is an American comedy film, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also known as The Spy.
A semi-remake of Buster Keaton's The General (1927), Skelton plays a Union soldier who spies for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Keaton served as technical adviser on the film.
Synopsis
In 1865, Aubrey Filmore works as a bell boy at the Palmer Hotel in St. Louis. Aubrey wants to work as a spy for the Union Government, and contacts Colonel Clifford M. Baker at the Union Secret Service, to ask if he can be of service in their elite spy unit. Aubrey has asked before, and the answer from Colonel Baker is still no.Actors
Red Skelton
(Aubrey Filmore)
Brian Donlevy
(Kurt Devlynn)
Arlene Dahl
(Sallyann Weatharby)
George Coulouris
(Maj. Jack Drumman aka The Grey Spider)
Lloyd Gough
(Capt. Steve Lorford)
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