Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)

ALL 02/21/1940 (en) Drama, History 19 Min
  • Release
    02/21/1940
  • Production
    Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Rotten tomato
    63.75%
  • Original title
    Teddy the Rough Rider
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Ray Enright

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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  1. Sidney Blackmer

    Theodore Roosevelt

  2. Douglas Wood

    President William McKinley

  3. Selmer Jackson

    John W. Riggs

  4. Theodore von Eltz

    William Loeb

  5. Arthur Loft

    Big Jim Rafferty

  6. John Ridgely

    Reporter

  7. Glenn Strange

    Jim Rawlins

  8. Robert Warwick

    Capt. Leonard Wood

  9. Frank Wilcox

    Roosevelt's Secretary

  10. Pierre Watkin

    Sen. Platt

  11. Wedgwood Nowell

    Mine Owner

  12. Edward McWade

    Russell Alger, Secretary of War

  13. Edward Van Sloan

    Elihu Root, Secretary of State

  14. Earl Dwire

    Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks

  15. Nat Carr

    Reporter

  16. Walter Fenner

    1st Slum Lord

  17. Gus Glassmire

    3rd Slum Lord

  18. Frank Mayo

    Cabinet Member

  19. Morgan Wallace

    First Financier

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 19 , Crews : 3

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Teddy the Rough Rider (1940) 19 Min

ALL 02/21/1940 (en)
Drama, History
  • Release 02/21/1940
  • Production
    Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Original title Teddy the Rough Rider
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Ray Enright

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Gordon Hollingshead

    Producer