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.

• 20th Century Fox
• Charles Coburn
• Joan Bennett
• William Eythe
• Allyn Joslyn
• Elizabeth Patterson
• Donald Meek
• Frank Craven
• Thurston Hall