Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
19m
Running Time
February 21, 1940Release Date
Teddy the Rough Rider (1940)
19m
Running Time
February 21, 1940Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Sidney Blackmer
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Wood
President William McKinley
Selmer Jackson
John W. Riggs
Pierre Watkin
Sen. Platt
Theodore von Eltz
William Loeb
Arthur Loft
Big Jim Rafferty
John Ridgely
Reporter
Ray Enright
Director
Glenn Strange
Jim Rawlins
Charles L. Tedford
Writer
Gordon Hollingshead
Producer
Robert Warwick
Capt. Leonard Wood
Ray Rennahan
Cinematographer
Frank Wilcox
Roosevelt's Secretary
Everett Dodd
Editor
Wedgwood Nowell
Mine Owner
Details.
Wiki.
Teddy, the Rough Rider is a 1940 American short drama film directed by Ray Enright. It won an Oscar at the 13th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).