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Teddy the Rough Rider
1940, Feb 21
0h 19m
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.
Directed by
Ray Enright
Written by
Charles L. Tedford
Frank Wilcox
Roosevelt's Secretary
Glenn Strange
Jim Rawlins
Pierre Watkin
Sen. Platt
Robert Warwick
Capt. Leonard Wood
Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt
John Ridgely
Reporter
Theodore von Eltz
William Loeb
Edward Van Sloan
Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Selmer Jackson
John W. Riggs
Edward McWade
Russell Alger, Secretary of War
Frank Mayo
Cabinet Member
Arthur Loft
Big Jim Rafferty
Douglas Wood
President William McKinley
Earl Dwire
Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
Wedgwood Nowell
Mine Owner
Morgan Wallace
First Financier
Nat Carr
Reporter
Walter Fenner
1st Slum Lord
Gus Glassmire
3rd Slum Lord
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