A Southern Yankee

A Southern Yankee 1948 is an American comedy film, directed by Edward Sedgwick, starring Red Skelton and Arlene Dahl, and released by MetroGoldwynMayer. It is also known as The Spy.

In 1865, Aubrey Filmore works as a bell boy at the Palmer Hotel in St. Louis. Aubrey wants to work as a spy for the Union Government, and contacts Colonel Clifford M. Baker at the Union Secret Service, to ask if he can be of service in their elite spy unit. Aubrey has asked before, and the answer from Colonel Baker is still no.Posters are soon put up, warning the public of a particularly cunning spy named The Grey Spider. Aubrey sees the posters, and when Major Jack Drumman comes to stay at the hotel, Aubrey finds out that he is in fact The Grey Spider. Unfortunately Aubrey is discovered by the major, and tries to force him wear Confederate clothes to look like The Grey Spider, in order to shoot him as a spy. ........

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