Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
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Release02/21/1940
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ProductionWarner Bros. Pictures
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Rotten tomato63.75%
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Original titleTeddy the Rough Rider
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Original languageen
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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.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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President William McKinley
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John W. Riggs
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William Loeb
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Big Jim Rafferty
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Reporter
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Jim Rawlins
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Capt. Leonard Wood
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Roosevelt's Secretary
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Sen. Platt
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Mine Owner
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Russell Alger, Secretary of War
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Elihu Root, Secretary of State
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Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks
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Reporter
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1st Slum Lord
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3rd Slum Lord
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Cabinet Member
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First Financier