Gabriel Over the White House

Gabriel Over the White House is a 1933 American PreCode film starring Walter Huston that has been variously described as a bizarre political fantasy or a comedy drama that is surprisingly socialist in tone albeit veering toward National Socialism and which posits a favorable view of fascism.

When the film opens, U.S. President Judson C. Judd Hammond Huston possibly a reference to Judson Harmon speculation? is variously described as a Hooverlike partisan hack or basically a donothing crook, based on, to some extent, Warren G. Harding. Then he suffers a nearfatal automobile accident and goes into a coma. Through what Portland State University instructor Dennis Grunes calls possible divine intervention, Hammond an FDR lookalike miraculously recovers, emerging a changed man, an activist politician, a Roosevelt.President Hammond makes a political Uturn, purging his entire cabinet of bigbusiness lackeys. When Congress impeaches him, he responds by dissolving the legislative branch, assuming the temporary power to make laws as he transforms himself into an allpowerful dictator. He orders the formation of a new Army of Construction answerable only to him, spends billions on one New Deallike program after another, and nationalizes the manufacture and sale of alcohol. ........

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