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William Holden Andrew Long
Ellen Drew Peggy Tobin
Brian Donlevy Gen. Andrew Jackson
Rod Cameron Jesse James
Richard Webb Randall Stevens
Porter Hall Art Slocumb
Frances Gifford Halsey
Andrew Jackson (HOLDEN) is very happy to serve as the secretary of the society that honors his presidential namesake until he is arrested for embezzling from the town coffers. With no one to speak on his behalf, poor innocent Jackson is tossed into jail. There he finds himself haunted by several ghosts, including Presidents Andrew Jackson (DONLEVY), George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. Each of this sagacious specters offers his advice to the incarcerated Andrew. Then Jesse James shows up and helps Andrew, the only one who can see them, escape and with their help, bring the real crooks to justice. When not helping Andrew, the ghosts have great fun adjusting to the modern world. The Remarkable Andrew (Paramount) is a refreshing fantasy. It brings back a posse of Founding Fathers and other once-vigorous Americans to mop up a pack of dishonest, flag-waving, 20th-century politicians.
Oathy, whiskey-swigging Andrew Jackson (Brian Donlevy), seventh President of the U.S., turns up in Shale City, Colo, to pay a debt of gratitude to the great-grandson of the man who saved his life at the Battle of New Orleans. The great-grandson, William Holden, an honest young municipal bookkeeper, needs help. His politico bosses are about to jail him for discovering that they have rigged the city books to cover their thefts.
Old Hickory, who knows his politicians, rattles his saber, polishes off the choice Maryland rye that teetotaling Holden fetches him from the drugstore, and bellows: "Rascals and poltroons! Every one of 'em. If I were in charge, I'd do with them what I should have done to Henry Clay." "What's that?" inquires Holden. "Hang 'em!" says Old Hickory.
The arrival of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Marshall, et al. to serve as defense counsel returns the case to a legal level. Their ghostly talents permit them to gather evidence unobserved. The case is a pushover. Of no help whatsoever is another shady defender named Henry Bartholomew Smith (James Conlon), volunteer private in Washington's Continental Army, who, having helped free his country, is through taking orders from generals whose commissions have expired. While the great men squabble over oldtime politics, he observes dryly to Bookkeeper Holden: "Now do you see why it took us seven years to win the Revolution?" |
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