The Phantom President

The Phantom President

★ 6.5IMDb Score
Released:1932-09-23
Duration:78 min
Director:Norman Taurog
Actors:George M. Cohan, Claudette Colbert, Jimmy Durante, George Barbier, Sidney Toler
Production:Paramount Pictures, Paramount Publix Corp.

Overview:

Too bad for the presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party bosses find Blair's double: huckster Doc Varney. Of course, they scheme to make Varney T.K.'s public spokesman; at first, he even fools Blair's girlfriend Felicia, providing a romantic complication. But as election eve approaches, the conspirators face the problem of what to do with Varney...who has difficult decisions of his own to make.

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