Colonel Effingham's Raid
About Colonel Effingham's Raid
In 1940 a retired Army colonel comes home to a small Southern town and starts a column in the local paper. He finds the courthouse politicians planning to tear down the historic county courthouse and replace it. He uses the column to rally the town against them.
Cast & crew
More about Colonel Effingham's Raid
Irving Pichel directed. Kathryn Scola adapted Berry Fleming's 1943 novel. Lamar Trotti produced. Cyril J. Mockridge wrote the music. Charles Coburn plays the colonel, with Joan Bennett and William Eythe. The British title is Man of the Hour. Other titles used on the picture are Everything's Peaches Down in Georgia and Rebel Yell.
Themes
Background
Fleming's target was a real Georgia machine, the Cracker Party in Richmond County. The film moves that fight onto a courthouse the colonel refuses to see replaced.
Music
Cyril J. Mockridge composed the score.
Notes
- Fleming based the novel on the Cracker Party and on political corruption in Richmond County, Georgia.
- Allyn Joslyn, Elizabeth Patterson, Cora Witherspoon, Donald Meek, and Emory Parnell are in the supporting cast.
- The story is set in 1940, before the United States entered the war, with the fight at home over a building rather than over the war.
- The UK release title drops the colonel's name and calls the film Man of the Hour.
Scenes
- The colonel discovers the plan to replace the county courthouse and takes the argument into the paper.
Influenced by
- Colonel Effingham's Raid (Berry Fleming novel, 1943)
Also available
- Internet Archive (colonel_effinghams_raid)
