Gabriel Over the White House

1933

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 55% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 1643 1.6K

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Plot summary

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

Director

Gregory La Cava Photo
Gregory La Cava

Top cast

Jack Baxley Photo
Jack Baxley as Unemployed Marcher
Theodore Lorch Photo
Theodore Lorch as Delegate to the Debt Conference
Jean Del Val Photo
Jean Del Val as Representative at Debt Conference
Frank McGlynn Jr. Photo
Frank McGlynn Jr. as Unemployed Spokesman
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792.65 MB
1280*934
English 2.0
Passed
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23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 1
1.44 GB
1480*1080
English 2.0
Passed
us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

Beyond the movie itself, I'm absolutely fascinated by

Beyond the movie itself, I'm absolutely fascinated by the tendency of reviewers on this website to confuse despotism for fascism as well as to think that such a tyrannical ideology is definitionally confined only to the right. No doubt the historical coincidence of America with racist authoritarianism makes actual fascism—typically characterized by an in-group/out-group exclusivity—all the harder to recognize and understand, which likely is what leads so many reviewers to read the film ahistorically, from the vantage of an anachronistic moral revulsion aghast that any right thinking person would desire a strongman. Little wonder, then, when a true waddling despot came swaddled in an oversized American flag, so many people mistook his pathetic demagogic pandering for principled democratic populism. For some folks, it must accordingly come as a shock to the system—though unfortunately far from a shock to The System, which in America is fundamentally and brutally authoritarian—to discover that the 1932 election of FDR was greeted in some Democratic circles with calls by prominent literati for an actual Roosevelt dictatorship. That is the motivating fantasy at the heart both of this curious film and American politics, and as much as it seems like an artifact of a bygone era, with its religious intervention, its sense of righteous vengeance, and its autocratic yearnings this could mutatis mutandis just as easily be a distilled version of what the Q zealots are after (albeit with a little less time travel and a lot more social justice).
Reviewed by David K 7 / 10

Definitely makes you think in view of today's

Definitely makes you think in view of today's world where people push for a strong leader with absolutely no similarity between economic conditions of 2024 and the conditions of the Great Depression. Oh, well. Food for thought and worthwhile.
Reviewed by Steve D 4 / 10

Some interesting ideas and no idea what to

Some interesting ideas and no idea what to do with them
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