Wilson

Aug 1, 1944

2h 34m

★ 5.5

DRAMA AND SPECTACLE UNPARALLELED! ENTERTAINMENT UNDREAMED OF! 12,000 PLAYERS! 200 MIGHTY SCENES! TOLD TO THE TUNE OF 87 BELOVED SONGS!

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

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Cast

Woodrow Wilson

Alexander Knox

Edith Bolling Galt

Geraldine Fitzgerald

Joseph Tumulty

Thomas Mitchell

Ellen Wilson

Ruth Nelson

Senator Henry Cabot Lodge

Cedric Hardwicke

Professor Henry Holmes

Charles Coburn

William Gibbs McAdoo

Vincent Price

George Felton

William Eythe

Eleanor Wilson

Mary Anderson

Margaret Wilson

Ruth Ford

Josephus Daniels

Sidney Blackmer

Jessie Wilson

Madeleine Forbes

Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

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Manto

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Kean

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No overview available.

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The Riverman

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5.8

The Cross and the Switchblade

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David Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with.

6.1

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6.4

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8.1

The Great War

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5.1

Stalin

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5.8

Young Tom Edison

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5.9

The Joe Louis Story

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4.4

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5.5

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6.6

Triumph of the Spirit

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5.3

Attila

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No overview available.

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Trial by Fire

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