The President's Mystery (1936) on Netflix
Attorney James Blake lobbies for the National Cannery against a bill meant to aid small businesses. He meets Charlotte Brown, whose cannery in Springvale, the town's livelihood, has shut down.
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Plot summary
James Blake is a lawyer who has lost his taste for his practice and for the people around him. His friend George Sartos engages him to lobby for the National Cannery against a bill meant to aid smaller businesses, and James wins the case. He then meets Charlotte Brown, who runs a cannery in Springvale that has closed, and the town's livelihood has gone with it. James hears the townsfolk out and decides to help them. He sells off his holdings, shuts his bank accounts and makes it look as though a business venture has failed, so that he seems bankrupt. Leaving his estranged wife, Ilka, behind, he prepares to disappear under a new name.
Cast
- Mel Ruickas Andrew
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The President's Mystery (1936)
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- The President's Mystery was based on a novel inspired by an outline by sitting U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and all proceeds from both the book and the film went to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation.
