Mooching Through Georgia

Mooching Through Georgia
Directed by	Jules White
Written by	Clyde Bruckman Buster Keaton
Produced by	Jules White
Starring	Buster Keaton Monte Collins Lynton Brent Bud Jamison Ned Glass Jack Hill Stanley Mack Nick Copeland Joe Murphy Cy Schindell
Cinematography	John Stumar
Edited by	Art Seid
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	August 11, 1939 (1939-08-11)
Country	United States
Language	English

Mooching Through Georgia is the second short subject film starring American comedian Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Keaton made a total of ten films for the studio between 1939 and 1941.

Synopsis

Keaton plays an American Civil War veteran named Homer Cobb, who tells his story of being a Kentucky youth who enlisted in the Confederate Army, but discovered that his brother, Cyrus Cobb (Monte Collins) joined the Union Army. Homer gets captured but Cyrus frees him. Cyrus is captured by the Confederate army but Homer, in turn, frees him. Homer uses all his wits and a few short logs of wood to save his town.

Production

Mooching Through Georgia was Keaton's second film about the American Civil War, his first being The General. The film was later remade in 1946 as Uncivil War Birds starring the Three Stooges (Curly Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine). The song "Dixie" replaces Buster's regular opening theme of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (later "Three Blind Mice") for this film, and continues as background music for approximately twenty seconds into the opening scene.

External links

• Mooching Through Georgia at IMDb
• Mooching Through Georgia at the International Buster Keaton Society