In this curious Depression fantasy, Walter Huston plays a rake who is elected President of the United States. While recovering from an automobile accident, he experiences a vision of the Archangel Gabriel and is inspired to declare himself a benevolent dictator, determined to abolish racketeering, eliminate unemployment and create world peace. If the idea of a morally questionable Chief Executive was, at the time, inspired by imagination, the Super-President tactics attributed to him probably were not. Placing the film among “a small but quite powerful group of near-Fascist films of the early '30s, offshoots of the gangster cycle,” William K. Everson notes: “Louis B. Mayer made no secret of his antagonism to Roosevelt and his administration, and there are signs of Mayer's personal tamperings with the script here. Both the ‘party-man' President of the opening reel, and the ‘enlightened' President of the bulk of the film are given lines, situations and clues which suggest identification with some of the less laudatory Roosevelt traits; but basically of course no clearly defined identification is intended.... The film is...startling in the proffered solutions (views held by many at that time) and startling too in the topicality, (50) years later, of many of its political and social problems.”