
The Bill of Rights
21 minutes1939-08-19
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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.
Cast

Ted Osborne
James Madison

Moroni Olsen
Royal Governor Dunmore

Leonard Mudie
Moreland

Vernon Steele
Thomas Jefferson

John Hamilton
Colonel George Mason

Raymond Brown

Tom Chatterton
Richard Henry Lee

Sidney Bracey
Colonist

Creighton Hale
New York Congressman

John Harron
Carter

William Hopper
Courier

Olaf Hytten
King George III

Boyd Irwin
Captain Collins

Glenn Langan
North Carolina Congressman

Charles Frederick Lindsley
Narrator (voice)

John Litel
Patrick Henry

Jack Mower
Virginia Congressman

John Ridgely
Massachusetts Congressman
