Mooching Through Georgia

Mooching Through Georgia is a comedy film starring Buster Keaton, released by Columbia Pictures on August 11, 1939. It was directed by Jules White.

Storyline

In the film, Keaton plays a 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 his 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. Buster then wonders if Jeb could be his brother.

Production

This was the second short film Keaton starred in contract with Columbia. It is also his second film about the Civil War, his first being The General (1927). The film was later remade by Columbia as Uncivil War Birds in 1946, starring the Three Stooges.

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