Gabriel Over The White House (1933)

After being elected as the president of the U.S. during the Great Depression, a corrupt career politician (Walter Huston) who doesn't much care about the problems of its citizens is seriously injured in an auto accident that leaves him in a coma. When he emerges from the coma, he is a different man who might be touched by an angel. Based on the novel by T.F. Tweed and directed by Gregory La Cava (STAGE DOOR). A bizarre political fantasy with a slight religious bent that is both progressive and fascist in its ideals and ideas. Made during the Great Depression, the supernatural fantasy gave hope to the unemployed and hungry masses of the period but while the rogue president is doing good (and also bad, gangsters are executed by a firing squad without a civil trial), he's essentially an American version of Mussolini. A preachy curio of the period. With Franchot Tone, Karen Morley, C. Henry Gordon, Jean Parker and Dickie Moore.