The Man Who Dared

Billed as "an imaginative biography," this film takes glorious liberties with the life of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was inadvertently gunned down on Feb. 15, 1933, by a bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt. Foster, in the title role (though his character name is different), plays a Polish immigrant who rises to the top of Chicago's political ranks, paving the way for a Democratic party which may never cease. He is seen against the backdrop of a city feeling the industrial advancements of a modern age in which the horse-and-buggy bowed to the gasoline engine. The sugary, angelic treatment of Cermak certainly could not offend anyone involved, ...