One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.One-man show about the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
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- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 2 nominations total
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- TriviaJames Whitmore is the only actor to receive an Academy Award nomination for a film with a cast of just one person.
- GoofsThe Prime Video link on the IMDB page is actually for a David Susskind series of interviews with President Truman, not the James Whitmore one man show.
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Harry S Truman: Say, Rose, there's a story going around about me these days. It says that some old party hen is supposed to have cornered Bess at some party, and said, "Mrs. Truman, isn't there anything you can do to get the President to stop using the word 'manure'?" And Bess is supposed to have replied, "It took me forty years to get him to use that word!"
Featured review
Whitmore's performance is exceptional.
A filmed version of a one-man stage play (filmed before a live audience), James Whitmore's Oscar-nominated performance is a rare treasure. As Truman, Whitmore gives rapid-fire comments on the highlights of an exceptional politician's career. Truman explains his justification for dropping the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, and his reasons for firing General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. He talks of his wife, Bess (whom he refers to as "the Boss"), his home in Missouri, and his early days as a soldier in World War I, and a county commissioner in Kansas City. He offers us his views of Truman's contemporaries, both good (Winston Churchill, George C. Marshall) and bad (Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon). Whitmore is a joy to watch. If you can find this rare film it is well worth seeing.
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- Jul 3, 2000
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- $230,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,000,000
- Gross worldwide
- $11,000,000
- Runtime1 hour 44 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Give 'em Hell, Harry! (1975) officially released in Canada in English?
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