"Willie and the Yank" is a 1967 3-part episode of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.
Synopsis[]
During the Civil War, Willie Prentiss, a Confederate 15, accidentally shoots his officer. Henry Jenkins, a Yankee, help to escape court martial. John Mosby, the accidentally wounded by Willie officer asked as compensation to integrate his battalion, and in order to organize the removal of a Union general. Henry falls in love with cousin Willie Oralee Prentiss. But the conflict between the North and the South complicates their desire for marriage.
Cast[]
- James MacArthur as Cpl. Henry Jenkins
- Nick Adams as Sgt. Gregg
- Jack Ging as Lt. John Singleton Mosby
- Kurt Russell as Pvt. Willie Prentiss
- Peggy Lipton as Oralee Prentiss
- Donald Harron as Gen. Edwin H. Stoughton
- Jeanne Cooper as Ma Prentiss
- James T. Callahan as Sam Chapman (as James Callahan)
- Robert Sorrells as Pvt. Starkey
- L.J. Andre as Uncle Ferd
- Steve Raines as Sgt. Maddux
- Michael Pate as Capt. Blazer
- Michael Kearney as Homer Prentiss
- Robert Random as Pvt. Lomax
- Michael Forest as Gen. J.E.B. Stuart