Main Cast: Joan Bennett, William Eythe, Allyn Joslyn, Elizabeth Patterson
Release Year: 1945
Country: US
Run Time: 70 minutes
Plot
Based on a novel by Barry Fleming, Colonel Effingham's Raid stars Charles Coburn in the title role. Upon retiring from the army, Effingham returns to his home town of Fredericksville, Georgia. Dismayed by the town's paucity of civic pride, the Colonel begins writing a newspaper column honoring Fredericksville's old traditions and chastizing those who would tear those traditions down. His pet peeve is the city administration's plan to rename Confederate Square after the pompous, mildly corrupt town mayor (Thurston Hall). When it seems that his protests are falling upon deaf ears, Colonel Effingham literally stage a "military assault" against City Hall, which in real life would get him thrown in the looney bin but which in a whimsical comedy of this nature results in a smashing success for the "good guys". If Colonel Effingham's Raid seems to be popping up on TV at a rate of once a day, it is because the film lapsed into public domain in 1973. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Lyle Wheeler - Art Director, Albert Hogsett - Art Director, Kay Nelson - Costume Designer, Irving Pichel - Director, Harmon Jones - Editor, Cyril Mockridge - Composer (Music Score), Emil Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Ben Nye, Sr. - Makeup, Edward J. Cronjager - Cinematographer, Lamar Trotti - Producer, Thomas K. Little - Set Designer, Ernest Lansing - Set Designer, Fred Sersen - Special Effects, Roger Heman - Sound/Sound Designer, E. Clayton Ward - Sound/Sound Designer, Kathryn Scola - Screenwriter, Barry Fleming - Book Author
