Hell-Bent for Election (Hell-Bent for Election) (1944)

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"DIR: Chuck Jones SUMMARY: An allegorical campaign film for the re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in which Roosevelt is depicted as a modern, streamlined locomotive and his Republican opponent Thomas E. Dewey as a creaky, worn out old steam train called The Defeatist Ltd. A railroad switch operator named Joe is told to make sure he doesn't fall asleep at the switch but he must resist the persuasive propaganda of a mysterious saboteur. WHY IT'S HERE: The excellent, politically Liberal campa"