A Southern Yankee (1948)
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A Yankee ninny causes comic turmoil during the Civil War in this poor reworking of Keaton's The General. Skelton is no match for Buster in any department and the script is clearly beyond salvation, even after Keaton himself had been hired for the gag sequences and his old director Sedgwick dragged from retirement to supervise the proceedings.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Producer: Paul Jones
Cast: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, John Ireland full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 90 mins
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