A message to Garcia (DVD)/ Twentieth Century Fox presents ; Darryl F. Zanuck Twentieth Century production ; presented by Joseph M. Schenck ; associate producer, Raymond Griffith ; screenplay by W.P. Lipscomb and Gene Fowler ; directed by George Marshall.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1936. Wallace Beery, Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Alan Hale, Herbert Mundin, Mona Barrie.
Summary:
Agent Rowan carries a message of cooperation from President McKinley to revolutionary Cuban General Garcia during the time of the Spanish-American War. Inspired by the 1899 essay A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (of Roycroft fame), loosely based on an actual incident. The phrase also became a well-known allusion of American popular and business culture until the middle of the 20th century. According to language expert Charles Earle Funk, "to take a message to Garcia" was for years a popular American slang expression for taking initiative and is still used by some members of the military.
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