Teddy the Rough Rider
5.9 / 10
19 minutes
1940-02-21
English
US
Actors :
Sidney Blackmer, Douglas Wood, Selmer Jackson, Theodore von Eltz, Arthur Loft, John Ridgely, Glenn Strange, Robert Warwick, Frank Wilcox, Pierre Watkin, Wedgwood Nowell, Edward McWade, Edward Van Sloan, Earl Dwire, Nat Carr
Description
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.