Colonel Effinghams Raid - DVD

On the eve of America's entry into World War II, Colonel Effingham (Charles Coburn) retires to his hometown of Fredricksville, Georgia, where his love for America leads him on a crusade to preserve the Confederate Monument Square. Mobilizing the town's upright citizens against the corrupt local government, the Colonel leads an unforgettable assault on City Hall. Colonel Effingham's Raid is a sly political fable that humorously explores

A group of confederate prisoners escape to Canada and plan to rob and destroy a small town, until their leader meets an attractive widow and her son.

Seven-time Academy Award nominee Richard Burton (Cleopatra) plays a British intelligence officer who leads a daring attack on the German shore defenses at Tobruk in Raid on Rommel. Infiltrating a German POW convoy, Captain Foster (Burton) learns that the commandos he hoped to link up with have been almost completely wiped out and the prisoners belong to a British medical unit. Aided by one of the surviving commandos (John Colicos), he v