About
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.
Theatrical
Feb 21, 1940
Director
Ray Enright
Producer
Gordon Hollingshead
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
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Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt
D
Douglas Wood
President William McKinley
S
Selmer Jackson
John W. Riggs
T
Theodore von Eltz
William Loeb
A
Arthur Loft
Big Jim Rafferty
J
John Ridgely
Reporter
G
Glenn Strange
Jim Rawlins
R
Robert Warwick
Capt. Leonard Wood
F
Frank Wilcox
Roosevelt's Secretary
P
Pierre Watkin
Sen. Platt
W
Wedgwood Nowell
Mine Owner
E
Edward McWade
Russell Alger, Secretary of War
E
Edward Van Sloan
Elihu Root, Secretary of State
E
Earl Dwire
Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
N
Nat Carr
Reporter
W
Walter Fenner
1st Slum Lord
G
Gus Glassmire
3rd Slum Lord
F
Frank Mayo
Cabinet Member
M
Morgan Wallace
First Financier
