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Clues to Adventure poster

Movie

Clues to Adventure

Released: April 11, 1949 (1949)

Runtime: 11 minutes

Genres: Drama, History

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.

Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)

  • Mary Gordon as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 66

  • Leonard Mudie as Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 66

  • Michael Mark as Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 63

  • Victor Kilian as John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 58

  • Leonard Penn as Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 41

  • John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)

    Age at release: 38

  • John Hubbard as Man in Zenger's Shop (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 34

  • Mary McLeod as Mary, Queen of Scots (archive footage) (uncredited)

    Age at release: 31