A Southern Yankee

(1948)

Comedy / War / Western

90 minutes

Directed by Edward Sedgwick 

Cast:

Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore 
Brian Donlevy as Kurt Devlynn 
Arlene Dahl as Sallyann Weatharby 
George Coulouris as Major Jack Drumman aka The Grey Spider 
Lloyd Gough as Captain Steve Lorford 
John Ireland as Captain Jed Calbern 
Minor Watson as Gen. Watkins 
Charles Dingle as Col. Weatherby 
Art Baker as Col. Clifford M. Baker 
Reed Hadley as Fred Munsey 
Arthur Space as Mark Haskins 
Joyce Compton as Hortense Dobson 

Aubrey Filmore lives in a Missouri town where he works as a clumsy bellboy. He is constantly hassling the Union officers, for he wishes to be a spy in the Civil War. Filmore gets confused by the Rebels when he accidentally surprises the notorious Confederate spy by the name of “The Grey Spider”. The Union use Filmore as a spy, but Filmore also has plans to attract the attention of a nice Southern girl named Sallyann. 

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