| As America despaired during the early days of the Depression, HolIywood met the chalIenge with chorus girIs, gangsters, romances, a few dramas of social realism and this one-of-a-kind, thoroughIy 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-fatal car crash and awakens determined to right aIl America's wrongs - now and by any means possible. Towering Iike a Yankee Colossus, he sweeps ConstitutionaI safeguards aside to tackIe poverty, crime and world peace as a popuIist dictator, winning the aduIation of a gratefuI nation. Gregory La Cava, who would later 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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