The newly elected president of the US (W. Huston) has a car accident. When he recovers from his coma, he is a changed man ready to take drastic measures in favour of unemployed people, to shoot gangsters and to push for world peace...
This very topical picture at the time (perhaps nowadays as well?) was produced by WR Hearst through Cosmopolitan Pictures. It bears in many aspects the Rooseveltian message, but at the same time, suggest a president who behaves like a dictator decreeting martial law. It's certainly a very unusual picture, released through MGM and apparently heavily modified by Will Hayes. God knows what the original message was? If this president is very socially conscious and ready to help unemployed people, he also behaves outside the normal law, especially in dealing with bootleggers. I wonder what Hearst wanted to achieve with this film: to support Roosevelt? If it's the case, I am quite surprised as I thought Hearst to be Republican. But the acting by Walter Huston is -as usual- superb. Certainly a picture to watch and watch again.
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