Teddy the Rough Rider 1940

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.

Cast

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