Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

Ella Sue Dozier: Then you're not discouraged, Colonel?
Col. Will Seaborn Effingham: Discouragement has no more place in a soldier's equipment than an inner-spring mattress.

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Albert 'Al' Marbury: Politics and polite society just don't mix!

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Col. Will Seaborn Effingham: I don't see why our biggest and most important project... the administration of government... should be handed over - lock, stock and barrel - to a bunch of incompetents!

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The WPA was the 'Work Progress Administration' (formerly the 'Works Projects Administration'), created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935 to create employment and revitalize communities across the USA. It was part of his New Deal strategy.
A reference is made to a headline, "Nazis Sweep through Norway", placing this film as being made after April 1940, as the Germans invaded Norway on the 9th of that month.
Cousin Willie quotes 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on' from 'The Tempest' (Act 4, scene 1, 148-158) by 'William Shakespeare' when speaking to Jesse Bibbs, the bank manager.
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