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| Director: Henry King
Actors: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 12277
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 154 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6302823463
UPC: 086162177835
EAN: 9786302823462
ASIN: 6302823463
Theatrical Release Date: August 1945
Release Date: August 4, 1993
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 A Lost War January 15, 2006
J. Davis (Philadelphia, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This film is beautifully shot, and for that I give it two stars. One star for the storyline. The acting is competent.
Woodrow Wilson the man is an interesting study, and no doubt influential in his day and deserving of study today. This film, however, is not a worthy historical analysis of the President or of the times in which he lived. This production is a propaganda piece intended to shape the attitudes of Americans during the SECOND World War, the one that Wilson hoped would never come. It has a strong pacifist message.
Although excessively long (nearly two-and-a-half hours) the film devotes little time to the context of the Great War of 1914-1918. The "Allies" are practically ignored -- one could draw the conclusion that the war was fought primarily between the United States and Germany, notwithstanding the U.S. did not join the fray (as an "Associated," not an "Allied," power) until 1917, at which time, though it was the chief industrial power, it was not a significant military force.
This motion picture idealizes the Presidency. The background music and reverential musings on American democracy comprise a paean to the nation. It could not be made today.
 PUUUUULEEEEEZZZZZZ..! July 24, 2007
Francisco J. Calderon (Mexico City, Mexico)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
How this turd won an oscar for screenwriting is beyond me. The guy preaches, and preaches, and preaches, then becomes president, then preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, becomes a widower, preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, remarries, preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, and preaches, then leaves office. The End.
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