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Colonel Effingham's Raid

Colonel Effingham's Raid

Directed by Irving Pichel

Starring Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett

Who Says You Can't Fight City Hall?

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.