Teddy the Rough Rider

February. 21,1940      
Rating:
5.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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

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