Teddy the Rough Rider

Teddy the Rough Rider

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 21, 1940

Runtime

0h 19m

Genres

Drama, History

User Score

59%

Original Title

Teddy the Rough Rider

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Director

Ray Enright

Description

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.