Colonel Effingham's Raid

Colonel Effingham's Raid
5.7

Colonel Effingham's Raid

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Directed by: Irving Pichel

Overview

The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.

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  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)

    I found this to be quite an entertaining tale of the eponymous, curmudgeonly, old gent (Charles Coburn) who returns from the army to his home town, only to find that standards have gone to pot and that there is no longer any civic pride in the place. The culmination of this cultural disintegration i...

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