The Bill of Rights
(1939)

Released: 1939-08-19

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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.

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Ted Osborne

as James Madison

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Moroni Olsen

as Royal Governor Dunmore

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Leonard Mudie

as Moreland

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Vernon Steele

as Thomas Jefferson

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John Hamilton

as Colonel George Mason

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Raymond Brown

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Tom Chatterton

as Richard Henry Lee

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Sidney Bracey

as Colonist

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Creighton Hale

as New York Congressman

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John Harron

as Carter

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William Hopper

as Courier

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Olaf Hytten

as King George III

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Boyd Irwin

as Captain Collins

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Glenn Langan

as North Carolina Congressman

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Charles Frederick Lindsley

as Narrator (voice)

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John Litel

as Patrick Henry

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Jack Mower

as Virginia Congressman

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John Ridgely

as Massachusetts Congressman

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Russell Simpson

as Frontiersman

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