Overview
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.
Cast
- Charles Coburn as Colonel Will Seaborn Effingham
- Joan Bennett as Ella Sue Dozier
- William Eythe as Albert 'Al' Marbury
- Allyn Joslyn as Earl Hoats
- Elizabeth Patterson as Cousin Emma
- Donald Meek as Doc Buden
- Frank Craven as Dewey
- Thurston Hall as Ed - the Mayor
- Cora Witherspoon as Mrs. Clara Meigs
- Emory Parnell as Joe Alsobrook