11 reviews
Drama/History
0h 19m
1940
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of...
This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.
- DirectorRay Enright
- Release21 February 1940
- Genre
- Duration0h 19m
- Budget?
- Revenue?
- Rate6.711 reviews
- Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood
President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson
John W. Riggs
Theodore von Eltz
William Loeb
Arthur Loft
Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely
Reporter
Glenn Strange
Jim Rawlins
Robert Warwick
Capt. Leonard Wood
Frank Wilcox
Roosevelt's Secretary
Pierre Watkin
Sen. Platt
Wedgwood Nowell
Mine Owner
Edward McWade
Russell Alger, Secretary of War
Edward Van Sloan
Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Earl Dwire
Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
Nat Carr
Reporter
Walter Fenner
1st Slum Lord
Frank Mayo
Cabinet Member
Morgan Wallace
First Financier
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