The President's Mystery
The President's Mystery is a 1936 American mystery film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer and Evelyn Brent. It was based on a novel inspired by an outline by the sitting President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with all proceeds of both the book and films going to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation It was produced and distributed by Republic Pictures. The film was released under the alternative title One for All in the United Kingdom by British Lion Films.
Plot
The film deals with a "problem Mr. Roosevelt submitted . . . whether it was possible for a man, weary of faithless friends and a wasted life, to convert a $5,000,000 estate into cash, disappear and start anew in some worth-while activity." (cited from The New York Times Monday, April 16, 2012)
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author | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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director | Phil Rosen |
editor | Robert L. Simpson |
genre | mystery |
keywords | act arrest bank account bill car accident engage estranged wife failed business force kill new york times small town spring strange behavior the national the new york times |
musicBy | Hugo Riesenfeld |
producer | Burt Kelly Nat Levine |
productionCompany | Republic Pictures |
publisher | Republic Pictures |