The Bill of Rights
6
21 minutes
8/19/1939
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 List
Ted Osborne
as James Madison
Moroni Olsen
as Royal Governor Dunmore
Leonard Mudie
as Moreland
Vernon Steele
as Thomas Jefferson
John Hamilton
as Colonel George Mason
Raymond Brown
Tom Chatterton
as Richard Henry Lee
Sidney Bracey
as Colonist
Creighton Hale
as New York Congressman
John Harron
as Carter
William Hopper
as Courier
Olaf Hytten
as King George III
Boyd Irwin
as Captain Collins
Glenn Langan
as North Carolina Congressman
Charles Frederick Lindsley
as Narrator (voice)
John Litel
as Patrick Henry
Jack Mower
as Virginia Congressman
John Ridgely
as Massachusetts Congressman
Russell Simpson
as Frontiersman