Colonel Effingham's Raid

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Comedy • Romance

57%

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Colonel Effingham's Raid

NR

1/24/19461h 12m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Who Says You Can't Fight City Hall? ~

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.

Director:

Irving Pichel

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

Cast

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

~ as ~

Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham

Joan Bennett

Joan Bennett

~ as ~

Ella Sue Dozier

William Eythe

William Eythe

~ as ~

Albert 'Al' Marbury

Allyn Joslyn

Allyn Joslyn

~ as ~

Earl Hoats

Elizabeth Patterson

Elizabeth Patterson

~ as ~

Cousin Emma

Donald Meek

Donald Meek

~ as ~

Doc Buden

Frank Craven

Frank Craven

~ as ~

Dewey

Thurston Hall

Thurston Hall

~ as ~

Ed - the Mayor

Cora Witherspoon

Cora Witherspoon

~ as ~

Mrs. Clara Meigs

Emory Parnell

Emory Parnell

~ as ~

Joe Alsobrook

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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 is the proposed demolition of the dilapidated city hall on the town's rallying "Confederate Monument Sq.". Can he galvanise the locals into thwarting the plans of the city planners and of an increasingly indifferent population? Irving Pichel leaves almost all of the heavy lifting here to a competent Coburn, but the rest of the cast (most notably a lacklustre Joan Bennett) and the rather uninspiring script let the film down a bit. Coburn always did have oodles of charisma, and is ideally cast here - but he can't do it all himself, and after a while the story runs too thin and thereby too predicably. That said, it is enjoyable to see a character actor having some fun on screen and it's a short and sweet nostalgia ride that does, certainly, raise the odd smile.