Directed by:
Gregory La CavaScreenplay:
Carey WilsonCinematography:
Bert GlennonComposer:
William AxtCast:
Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel S. Hinds, Jean Parker, Mischa Auer, Akim Tamiroff (more)Plots(1)
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident. (MUBI)
Cast
Walter Huston
Canada
Best movies:
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Karen Morley
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Franchot Tone
USA
Best movies:
Advise and Consent (1962)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Three Comrades (1938)
Arthur Byron
USA
Best movies:
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
The Mummy (1932)
Dickie Moore
USA
Best movies:
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Out of the Past (1947)
C. Henry Gordon
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
The Crusades (1935)
David Landau
USA
Best movies:
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Judge Priest (1934)
Samuel S. Hinds
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Jean Parker
USA
Best movies:
The Flying Deuces (1939)
The Gunfighter (1950)
The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Mischa Auer
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Akim Tamiroff
Russian Empire
Best movies:
The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Tom London
USA
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Our Hospitality (1923)
Freaks (1932)
Gladden James
USA
Best movies:
Captains Courageous (1937)
Love Is News (1937)
Test Pilot (1938)
Oscar Apfel
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Conquest (1937)
Teru Shimada
Japan
Best movies:
King Rat (1965)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Sam Harris
Australia
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
The Great Dictator (1940)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Henry Kolker
USA
Best movies:
The Power and the Glory (1933)
Holiday (1938)
Union Pacific (1939)
Chuck Hamilton
USA
Best movies:
Modern Times (1936)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
William Worthington
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
After the Thin Man (1936)
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Buddy Roosevelt
USA
Best movies:
Storm Warning (1951)
Captain Blood (1935)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)