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Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)

Directed by Ray Enright

Overview

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.

Length 19 minutes

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 | Walter Fenner | Gus Glassmire | Frank Mayo | Morgan Wallace