Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
3.3 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
As America despaired during the early days of the Depression, Hollywood met the challenge with chorus girls, gangsters, romances, a few dramas of social realism 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 angel after a near-fatal car crash and awakens determined to right all America's wrongs - now and by any means possible. Towering like a Yankee Colossus, he sweeps Constitutional safeguards aside to tackle poverty, crime and world peace as a populist dictator, winning the adulation of a grateful 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! - Actors:
- Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Dickie Moore, C. Henry Gordon, David Landau, Samuel S. Hinds, William Pawley, Jean Parker, Claire Du Brey, Oscar Apfel, Mischa Auer, Max Barwyn, Jack Baxley, Brooks Benedict, Margaret Bert, F. Blinn, Allan Cavan, Spencer Charters
- Directors:
- Gregory La Cava
- Producers:
- William Randolph Hearst, Walter Wanger
- Writers:
- Carey Wilson, Bertram Bloch, T.F. Tweed
- Aka:
- El despertar de una nación
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy