The life of Andrew Johnson, the only President ever to face impeachment proceedings by Congress (the motion to oust him failed by one vote), gets the Hollywood treatment in this slightly above-average biography. Heflin is the backwoods boy who flees a cruel tailor to whom he has been
apprenticed and finds his way to the town where Hussey is schoolteacher. She teaches him to read and write and soon he is leading a voting rights crusade. When the Civil War erupts, Heflin's loyalties remain with the Union and when O'Neill (playing Lincoln) is re-elected in 1864, Heflin becomes
his Vice President. When he succeeds O'Neill as president, he faces a great deal of oppositi...
Released:
1942
Rated:
NR
Length:
103 mins