The Fighting President
Feature film · 59 min · dir. Edwin C. Hill
- Documentary
- History
Synopsis
Showcases incidents based on the life of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This mostly accurate privately produced biography of FDR is a cinema and political curiosity. Its lavish praise for the new president who had been in office for less than a month indicates how desperate the nation was for hope and change. The projections of FDR's future accomplishments and powerful leadership likewise were based more on hope than prior knowledge. Fortunately many of these projections proved to be…
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Details
- Director
- Edwin C. Hill
- Studio
- Universal Pictures Corporation
- Released
- 1933-04-01
- Running time
- 59 minutes
Cast & crew
Edwin C. Hill Director- Edwin C. Hill
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Treatment Animals · kpieta · 2019-08-08
I find it difficult to watch how much abuse to animals I see, like getting an elephant drunk. Or how the fight between direct and indirect current was suppose to be confirmed by electrocution of that poor elephant. I am sure I saw a horse roll in a WW1 trench. They forgot to mention the flu was caused by keeping pigs for eating in the troop camps.
