Southern Yankee (1948)
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Hot on the heels of Columbia's The Fuller Brush Man, MGM released another Red Skelton gagfest, A Southern Yankee. Set during the Civil War, the film casts Skelton as bumbling bellboy Aubrey Filmore. Yearning to help the Northern cause by becoming an undercover spy, Aubrey succeeds beyond his… More Hot on the heels of Columbia's The Fuller Brush Man, MGM released another Red Skelton gagfest, A Southern Yankee. Set during the Civil War, the film casts Skelton as bumbling bellboy Aubrey Filmore. Yearning to help the Northern cause by becoming an undercover spy, Aubrey succeeds beyond his wildest dreams when circumstances force him to pose as notorious Southern secret agent Major Drumman (George Coulouris), aka "The Grey Spider". Infiltrating rebel territory, our hero does his best (which is none too good) to intercept the Grey Spider's messages and smuggle them to the North. Along the way, he falls in love with pert Southern belle Sallyann Weatherby (Arlene Dahl). Many of the side-splitting gag routines were devised by Buster Keaton, notably the now-famous scene in which Aubrey gingerly walks across the battlefield between Northern and Southern lines carrying a two-sided flag -- the Northern Stars and Stripes on one side, the Southern Stars and Bars on the other -- a strategy that works until the wind suddenly changes! Though Edward Sedgwick is credited with the direction, Red Skelton later revealed that A Southern Yankee was actually directed by S. Sylvan Simon. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Edward Sedgwick
- Written By
- Harry Tugend
- Genres
- Comedy
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Cast
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Red Skelton
as Aubrey Filmore
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Brian Donlevy
as Curt Devlynn
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Arlene Dahl
as Sallyann Weatharby
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George Coulouris
as Maj. Jack Drumman
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Lloyd Gough
as Capt. Steve Lorford
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John Ireland
as Capt. Jed Calbern
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Minor Watson
as Gen. Watkins
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Charles Dingle
as Col. Weatharby
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Art Baker
as Col. Clifford M. Baker
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Reed Hadley
as Fred Munsey
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Arthur Space
as Mark Haskins
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Richard Alexander
as Bartender
- Stanley Andrews
- Shelby Bacon
- Lane Chandler
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Cliff Clark
as Dr. Cooper
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Joyce Compton
as Hortense Dobson
- Harry Cording
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Jeff Corey
as Union Cavalry Sergeant
- Sam Flint
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Byron Foulger
as Mr. Duncan
- Christian J. Frank
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Edward Gargan
as Male Nurse
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Frank S. Hagney
as Horseman
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Paul Harvey
as Mr. Twitchell
- Weldon Heyburn
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Bill Kennedy
as Lt. Sheve
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James Logan
as Man
- Ian MacDonald
- Kermit Maynard
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Frank McGrath
as Dispatch Rider
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Wally Merrill
as Confederate Soldier
- John Merton
- Howard Mitchell
- Ralph Montgomery
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Bert Moorhouse
as Captain
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Forbes Murray
as Officer
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David Newell
as Sentry
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Paul Newlan
as Man with Saber
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William 'Bill' Phillips
as Soldier
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Addison Richards
as Dr. Clayton
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Carl Saxe
as Sentry
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David Sharpe
as Confederate Officer
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Ann Staunton
as Nurse
- Ralph Volkie
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Pierre Watkin
as Major
- Dick Wessel
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Henry Hall
as Thaddeus Drumman
- William Tannen
- Allen Mathews
- Victor Zimmerman
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John Hilton
as Orderly
- Jack Lee
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Susan Simon
as Jenny
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Dick Simmons
as S.S. Man
- Roger Moore
