Clues to Adventure

Apr 11, 1949

0h 11m

★ 6.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Clues to Adventure Trailers

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

John Nesbitt

Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary Gordon

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

John Hubbard

John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)

Victor Kilian

Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Mark

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

Mary McLeod

Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Mudie

Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Penn

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