Private Snuffy Smith

Private Snuffy Smith
Private Snuffy Smith
Directed by	Edward F. Cline
Written by	Billy DeBeck (comic strip "Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"); John Grey (original screenplay); Jack Henley (original screenplay); Lloyd French (original screenplay); Doncho Hall (original screenplay);
Produced by	Jack Dietz (associate producer); Edward Gross (producer); Daniel Keefe (associate producer)
Starring	Bud Duncan; Edgar Kennedy; Sarah Padden; J. Farrell MacDonald;
Cinematography	Marcel Le Picard
Edited by	Robert O. Crandall
Production; company	Monogram Pictures
Release date	January 16, 1942;
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Private Snuffy Smith (reissued as Snuffy Smith, Yardbird) is a 1942 American army comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Bud Duncan as comic-strip character Snuffy Smith and Edgar Kennedy as his commanding officer. A sequel, Hillbilly Blitzkrieg, was released later in 1942 and also featured Duncan and Kennedy. The comic strip's characters Barney Google and Sparkplug the horse do not appear in the film.