Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)

Teddy the Rough Rider

1940

Drama History Documentary

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

Ray Enright

Cast

Arthur Loft as Big Jim Rafferty

Douglas Wood as President William McKinley

Frank Wilcox as Roosevelt's Secretary

Glenn Strange as Jim Rawlins

John Ridgely as Reporter

Pierre Watkin as Sen. Platt

Robert Warwick as Capt. Leonard Wood

Selmer Jackson as John W. Riggs