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Teddy the Rough Rider

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Calorie Rating: 27
Released: 1940-02-21
Running Time: 19 Minutes
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures,


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.

Director / Directors

Ray Enright
Director


Cast

Sidney Blackmer
Character: Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood
Character: President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson
Character: John W. Riggs

Theodore von Eltz
Character: William Loeb
Arthur Loft
Character: Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely
Character: Reporter

Glenn Strange
Character: Jim Rawlins
Robert Warwick
Character: Capt. Leonard Wood
Frank Wilcox
Character: Roosevelt's Secretary

Pierre Watkin
Character: Sen. Platt
Wedgwood Nowell
Character: Mine Owner
Edward McWade
Character: Russell Alger, Secretary of War

Edward Van Sloan
Character: Elihu Root, Secretary of State
Earl Dwire
Character: Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
Nat Carr
Character: Reporter

Walter Fenner
Character: 1st Slum Lord
Gus Glassmire
Character: 3rd Slum Lord
Frank Mayo
Character: Cabinet Member

Morgan Wallace
Character: First Financier


Production and Crew