The Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights (1939)


  • Genre: Drama, History
  • Release Date: 1939-08-19
  • User Rating: 6/10 from 2 ratings
  • Runtime: 0h 21min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures
  • Director: Crane Wilbur
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Summary

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
  • Moroni Olsen

    as Royal Governor Dunmore
  • Leonard Mudie

    as Moreland
  • Vernon Steele

    as Thomas Jefferson
  • John Hamilton

    as Colonel George Mason
  • Raymond Brown

    as
  • 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
Camera W. Howard Greene Director of Photography
Production Gordon Hollingshead Producer
Writing Charles L. Tedford Screenplay
Costume & Make-Up Perc Westmore Makeup Artist
Visual Effects Natalie Kalmus Color Designer
Editing Everett Dodd Editor
Costume & Make-Up Milo Anderson Costume Design
Sound Everett Alton Brown Sound
Sound Howard Jackson Music
Art Charles Novi Art Direction
Directing Crane Wilbur Director

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