Teddy the Rough Rider

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.

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  • Release Date: 1940-02-21
  • Runtime: 0h 19min
  • Director: Ray Enright

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Cast

  • Sidney Blackmer

    Theodore Roosevelt

  • Douglas Wood

    President William McKinley

  • Selmer Jackson

    John W. Riggs

  • Theodore von Eltz

    William Loeb

  • Arthur Loft

    Big Jim Rafferty

  • John Ridgely

    Reporter

  • Glenn Strange

    Jim Rawlins

  • Robert Warwick

    Capt. Leonard Wood

  • Frank Wilcox

    Roosevelt's Secretary

  • Pierre Watkin

    Sen. Platt

  • Wedgwood Nowell

    Mine Owner

  • Edward McWade

    Russell Alger, Secretary of War

  • Edward Van Sloan

    Elihu Root, Secretary of State

  • Earl Dwire

    Caretaker Messenger in Adirondacks

  • Nat Carr

    Reporter

  • Walter Fenner

    1st Slum Lord

  • Gus Glassmire

    3rd Slum Lord

  • Frank Mayo

    Cabinet Member

  • Morgan Wallace

    First Financier

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