Gabriel Over the White House (1933)

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by gabrielll in gabrielll Blog

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"I felt the need to watch this movie. And as suggested I sought it out on YouTube. This is an interesting film that basically shows what it would have been like if George W. would have been left to his own devices, and been quite a bit smarter. Knowing that the path to a full on dictatorship is probably just as easy as represented in the film is pretty frightening. All that needs to happen is the economy needs to colapse a bit more, and then God needs to touch the president with a serious need to "Fix the world." At times this movie can be campy (like the drive by on the White House). But it tries very hard to make a serious point about what it would take to fix the nation's and the world's ills. Fascinating that this was made a decade before World War II, and it still has so many parallels with so many events in history. Good Stuff, I'm glad I watched it. " [More]

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"Oliver Stone’s W. opens tonight. For a little perspective, we decided to watch a different movie made in an era of political transition and economic collapse. Gabriel Over the White House (1933) tells the tale of a slacker president who undergoes a religious conversion, after which he consolidates executive power and sponsors an enormous financial bailout. Sound familiar? It should, FDR personally approved the script, then went on to enact half of the film during his presidency, but the parallels echo through many administrations. Quint from Ain’t it Cool News tells us what he’s been watching, including a tender love story involving vampires, [More]

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"In an email exchange this week with John Damer-a regular FilmCouch listener–he mentioned a movie called Gabriel Over the White House. Just go to this movie’s Wikipedia page, and a movie-dork acid will start to fill your stomach. William Randolph Hearst made a movie where there’s a gangster driveby of the White House and the President predicts last week’s bailout plan?!?!?! You must see it. You start searching for the DVD and, probably, wind up at Amazon.com. There you’ll find a few secondary vendors selling VHS copies of the movie for over $100. Your heart sinks. A little more digging reveals there’s no copy at the local library. For the more Internet immersed, you may try Archive.org hoping the copyright expired and it’s now in the public domain. No luck. MGM still holds the rights. But there’s a guerrilla spirit of VHS movie collectors out there w " [More]

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