4.5
“Who Says You Can't Fight City Hall?”
Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)
January 24, 19461h 12mEN
5.7
6 votes
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 PichelWriters
Where to Watch
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Free
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
20th Century Fox
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CinemaSerf
6.0I 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…
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