{"id":38832,"date":"2025-04-30T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38832"},"modified":"2025-04-30T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:47:10","slug":"a-southern-yankee-1948-starring-red-skelton-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38832","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Southern Yankee&#8221; (1948) starring Red Skelton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z043025zview_southernyankee.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"781\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Southern Yankee <\/strong><\/em>(1948)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Edward Sedgwick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Harry Tugend,<\/strong> written by<strong> Melvin Frank, Norman Panama; <\/strong>based on \u00a0<strong>Buster Keaton<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The General<\/em>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy<\/strong><strong>, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough<\/strong> and\u00a0 <strong>John Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> HE&#8217;S A SPY FOR BOTH SIDES!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230; <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1865.\u00a0 The Civil War is winding down, but spies are still a danger. Especially in a Union Army town. Aubrey Filmore (Skelton) is a hotel bellman who dreams of catching a rebel spy.\u00a0 Problem is, Aubrey struggles to be an effective bellman.\u00a0 He just isn&#8217;t soldier material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When word arrives that the rebel spy known as The Grey Spider is coming to town, Aubrey goes on full alert.\u00a0 Totally by accident, Aubrey discovers The Grey Spider&#8217;s identity and plans.\u00a0 When The Grey Spider discovers Aubrey, Aubrey accidentally knocks him out.\u00a0 Aubrey then turns The Grey Spider over to Colonel Baker.\u00a0 Because nobody knows what The Grey Spider looks like, it is decided that Aubrey should impersonate him and go behind enemy lines.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a suicide mission, but as Colonel Baker, &#8220;What do we have to lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<em>A Southern Yankee<\/em> is loosely based on Buster Keaton&#8217;s <em>The General<\/em>.\u00a0 Buster Keaton was on set some during filming of <em>A Southern Yankee<\/em> and helped come up with the gags.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>A Southern Yankee <\/strong><\/em>(1948) rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z043025zview_southernyankee2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Southern Yankee (1948) Director:\u00a0 Edward Sedgwick Screenplay: Harry Tugend, written by Melvin Frank, Norman Panama; based on \u00a0Buster Keaton&#8216;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38833,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}