Gabriel Over the White House
1933, Drama, 1h 27m
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When Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) is elected United States president during the Great Depression, he's seen by many as a hands-off, please-everyone type. After an astounding recovery from a car accident, however, Hammond awakes a changed man. Instituting sweeping, radical changes to the government -- including the dissolution of Congress and the revoking of the Constitution -- Hammond somehow manages to bring order to the country through dictatorship, along with world peace.
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Genre: Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Gregory La Cava
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Producer: Walter Wanger
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Writer: Carey Wilson, T.F. Tweed, Bertram Bloch
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
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Sound Mix: Mono
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beyond bizarre. walter huston as the president asserts his constitutional authority to become dictator of the u.s. after a near-death experience. he fires everyone and uses federal troops to combat the depression and gangsters. there's even a driveby shooting at the white house! produced by william randolph hearst the same year hitler came to power, it soon became controversial for obvious reasons and wasn't seen for many years. it's an interesting piece of propaganda and still a little bit frightening
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This is a strange but enjoyable film. Walter Huston becomes president during the Great Depression and he approaches the depression without urgency, but then he is in a car accident and is close to death. He recovers suddenly as a different person and starts to run the country as a dictator and fights the economy and gangsters.He bullies his cabinet, congress, and foreign leaders if they don't do as he says. It's hinted that the angel Gabriel has possessed him. This film showed what he was doing as positive and what the country needed, but the film was pulled when Hitler came to power and was doing exactly what Huston was doing. Huston is very good and the film is interesting. It's just a little crazy and it has a scene where gangsters do a drive by on the White House. Never seen that before.
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One of the more interesting films I have seen of late, but it feels very long. The subject matter is interesting, but watching the film is not.
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