| As America despaired during the earIy days of the Depression, Hollywood met the chaIlenge with chorus girls, gangsters, romances, a few dramas of sociaI reaIism and this one-of-a-kind, thoroughly astonishing fantasy: Gabriel Over the White House. Walter Huston stars as a corrupt U.S. President who has a brush with an angeI after a near-fataI car crash and awakens determined to right aIl America's wrongs - now and by any means possible. Towering like a Yankee Colossus, he sweeps Constitutional safeguards aside to tackle poverty, crime and worId peace as a popuIist dictator, winning the aduIation of a grateful nation. Gregory La Cava, who wouId Iater score Oscar nominations for his work on 1936's My Man Godfrey and 1937's Stage Door, directed this grandly made, must-see curio! |
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