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A Southern Yankee

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Original title

A Southern Yankee

Year

1948

Running time

90 min.

Country

United States

Director

Edward Sedgwick

Screenwriter

Harry Tugend, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Cast

Music

David Snell

Cinematography

Ray June (B&W)

Producer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre

Comedy. War. Western | Historical. American Civil War. Spy Film

Synopsis

Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters the Union officers there; he desperately wants to be a spy for the North in the American Civil War. When Filmore accidentally waylays an infamous Confederate spy known as "The Grey Spider" and is mistaken for him by the Rebels, the Union brass see it as an opportunity for real espionage - and though Filmore is a coward as well as a fool, his real motivation for derring-do is a sweet Southern girl named Sallyann, whom he will see again behind Southern lines.

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A Southern Yankee

1948

Edward Sedgwick