Movie: Clues to Adventure

Top 8 Billed Cast

John Nesbitt
John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Mary Gordon
Mary Gordon

Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Hubbard
John Hubbard

Man in Zenger's Shop (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victor Kilian
Victor Kilian

John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Mark
Michael Mark

Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary McLeod
Mary McLeod

Mary, Queen of Scots (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie
Leonard Mudie

Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Penn
Leonard Penn

Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)

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    This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.

  • Release Date

    1949-04-11

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    6

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    English
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