Gabriel Over The White House

Year: 1933

Grade: A

Country: USA

Director: La Cava

Review

one of the great underrated and uplifting films i’ve seen. walter huston is great as the president of the united states who has an epiphany (thanks to the angel gabriel). he goes from a party politician to an even more bold and better version of FDR. interestingly, the film was released the same month that the real FDR was inaugurated. it’s a tough film to find as it’s out of print on vhs and hasn’t ever been released on dvd. this is one reason i wish warner brothers had won their bid to get the rest of the mgm catalog. unfortunately, sony won, so they have the rights to the majority of the mgm films. wb would have given this one a dvd, sony is less concerned about their catalog.