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Post by topbilled on Jan 18, 2023 2:08:28 GMT
What are your favorite movies about presidents?
I like ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (1940) and TENNESSEE JOHNSON (1942).
THE PRESIDENT'S LADY (1953) features Charlton Heston as Andrew Jackson, a role he repeated in THE BUCCANEER (1958).
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Post by Sam on Jan 18, 2023 2:39:57 GMT
What are your favorite movies about presidents?
If we count television productions, I have always found The Missiles of October compelling, and mostly accurate based on what was publicly known in 1974. Aside from the Kennedys we see depictions of all the cabinet members and other historical figures. It's less a movie than televised theater but very well done I think.
Plus it's fun hearing Devane and Sheen saying things like, "Mmm. That's good chowda."
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Post by BingFan on Jan 18, 2023 22:14:31 GMT
YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (1939) is probably my favorite movie about a president, although Lincoln wasn’t actually president in the course of that story.
I’ve also seen most of those films already mentioned above and like them, too.
(I have very fond memories of learning a lot from THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER in a high school social studies class in the 1970s, when the film was new. They must have distributed it for educational use shortly after it was shown on ABC. I remember that we watched it from one of the first videotapes I’d ever seen.)
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 18, 2023 23:31:49 GMT
One that fits the theme broadly, as it's about DC politics and a fictional presidential election, is 1937's "First Lady."
For a Code-era film, it surprisingly shows some of the dirty side of politics. Plus it has a strong cast with Kay Francis, Walter Connolly, Grant Mitchell and Verree Teasdale.
It's a good, not great one, but if you are looking for something you haven't seen and enjoy 1930s movies, it's well worth the watch.
My brief comments on it here: www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/what-was-the-last-movie-you-watched.20830/post-2551326
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Post by Sam on Jan 19, 2023 5:38:04 GMT
I have very fond memories of learning a lot from THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER in a high school social studies class in the 1970s, when the film was new. They must have distributed it for educational use shortly after it was shown on ABC. I remember that we watched it from one of the first videotapes I’d ever seen.
One thing the public did not know then, though there were those who later theorized about a quid pro quo, was that Kennedy did in fact agree to remove the Jupiter missiles from Turkey, which may have been a deal offered by Bobby in a private meeting with Dobrynin. One of the Soviets, I forget who, maybe Dobrynin himself, years later said that Bobby told him something like, if that's all you're worried about I'm sure we can fix it. (McNamara said they were junk and we were planning to scrap them anyway.) digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/robert-f-kennedy-memorandum-dean-rusk-meeting-anatoly-f-dobrynin |
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