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The Bill of Rights

Genre:DramaHistory

Released:1939-08-19

Runtime:21

Overview

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figures of the American Revolution and the despotic British colonial rule which led to the creation of the Bill of Rights.


Cast:

Ted Osborne

Character: James Madison

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Moroni Olsen

Character: Royal Governor Dunmore

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Leonard Mudie

Character: Moreland

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Vernon Steele

Character: Thomas Jefferson

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John Hamilton

Character: Colonel George Mason

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Raymond Brown

Character:

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Tom Chatterton

Character: Richard Henry Lee

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Sidney Bracey

Character: Colonist

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Creighton Hale

Character: New York Congressman

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John Harron

Character: Carter

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William Hopper

Character: Courier

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Olaf Hytten

Character: King George III

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Boyd Irwin

Character: Captain Collins

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Glenn Langan

Character: North Carolina Congressman

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Charles Frederick Lindsley

Character: Narrator (voice)

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John Litel

Character: Patrick Henry

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Jack Mower

Character: Virginia Congressman

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John Ridgely

Character: Massachusetts Congressman

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Russell Simpson

Character: Frontiersman

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