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.
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
Gus Glassmire
3rd Slum Lord
Frank Mayo
Cabinet Member
Morgan Wallace
First Financier
Recommendations
view all
All the Way
W.
And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
Outlaws - For Greater Glory
The Angel
Field of Lost Shoes
The Most Hated Woman in America
Walking with the Enemy
Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher
Emperor
The Scarlet and the Black
Being James Bond
The Fog of War
The Rosa Parks Story
The Last Rifleman
The Final Year
Driven
Born a Champion
Reagan
Max