Teddy the Rough Rider
movie
Released February 21, 1940
Genres:
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.
Cast
Sidney Blackmer
as
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood
as
President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson
as
John W. Riggs
Theodore von Eltz
as
William Loeb
Arthur Loft
as
Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely
as
Reporter
Glenn Strange
as
Jim Rawlins
Robert Warwick
as
Capt. Leonard Wood
Frank Wilcox
as
Roosevelt's Secretary
Pierre Watkin
as
Sen. Platt
Wedgwood Nowell
as
Mine Owner
Edward McWade
as
Russell Alger, Secretary of War
