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01/08/1944 Drama 2h 34m
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Overview

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2006.

  1. Henry King

    Director

  2. Lamar Trotti

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Alexander Knox

    Woodrow Wilson

  2. Geraldine Fitzgerald

    Edith Bolling Galt

  3. Thomas Mitchell

    Joseph Tumulty

  4. Ruth Nelson

    Ellen Wilson

  5. Cedric Hardwicke

    Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

  6. Charles Coburn

    Professor Henry Holmes

  7. Vincent Price

    William Gibbs McAdoo

  8. William Eythe

    George Felton

  9. Mary Anderson

    Eleanor Wilson

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-30
Had they been contemporaries, one might be forgiven for thinking that Daryll F. Zanuck owed Woodrow Wilson quite a sum of money. The 28th President could hardly have written a more favourable biopic, had he penned it himself. Oscar nominated Alexander Knox is superbly cast, though, in this depiction of the rise of the academic, principled fellow to the White House. Insofar as history in concerned, however - it is pretty factually "loose", somewhat fanciful, and though an interesting assessment of America's leader during the latter stages of WWI - clearly a man of ideals and vision - the only t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,995,000.00

Revenue
$2,000,000.00

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