Clues to Adventure

Clues to Adventure

11 mins | Drama, History | April 11, 1949

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.

Clues to Adventure

11 mins | Drama, History | April 11, 1949

Clues to Adventure
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.
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Clues to Adventure
Directors
Writers John Nesbitt

Cast

John Nesbitt

as Narrator (voice)

Mary Gordon

as Woman Reading Newspaper (archive footage) (uncredited)

John Hubbard

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

Victor Kilian

as John Peter Zenger (archive footage) (uncredited)

Michael Mark

as Fisherman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary McLeod

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

Leonard Mudie

as Townsman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leonard Penn

as Louis XIV (archive footage) (uncredited)