Yankee Doodle Goes to Town

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.

Directed by Jacques Tourneur

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Cast

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Clem Bevans

Curdleface (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Bartender (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Shopkeeper (uncredited)

Albert Russell

Abraham Lincoln (uncredited)

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