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.

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