MAY 4 · FIGHTING TYRANNY FILM FEST
Gabriel Over the White House
A film by Gregory La Cava
w/ Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone
Rated PG
1hr 26min
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.
Its political identity rests somewhere between Frank Capra and Frank Booth, positing a more benevolent brand of stateside dictatorship than that practiced at the time by Benito Mussolini or Joseph Stalin.
Nick Rogers
Midwest Film Journal
Of all the crackpot political films to come out of Hollywood ... this is surely the crackpottest, and must really be seen to be believed.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies
MAY 4 · FIGHTING TYRANNY FILM FEST
Gabriel Over the White House
A film by Gregory La Cava
w/ Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone
Rated PG
1hr 26min
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.
Its political identity rests somewhere between Frank Capra and Frank Booth, positing a more benevolent brand of stateside dictatorship than that practiced at the time by Benito Mussolini or Joseph Stalin.
Nick Rogers
Midwest Film Journal
Of all the crackpot political films to come out of Hollywood ... this is surely the crackpottest, and must really be seen to be believed.
Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
Goatdog's Movies
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