The Declaration of Independence

Movie 1938 · 17m

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This historical featurette focuses on Caesar Rodney of Delaware who in the summer of 1776 cast the deciding vote, at the meeting of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, so that the Declaration of Independence was adopted.

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19 people

John Litel Thomas Jefferson

Ted Osborne Caesar Rodney

Rosella Towne Betsy Kramer

Richard Bond Thomas Lynch Jr.

O Owen King Edward Rutledge

Lionel Belmore The Innkeeper (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey Congress Clerk (uncredited)

Tom Chatterton Richard Henry Lee (uncredited)

H Hal Craig Man Shooting at Rodney (uncredited)

Henry Hall John Hancock (uncredited)

John Harron Rodney's Messenger (uncredited)

Boyd Irwin Thomas McKean (uncredited)

C Charles Frederick Lindsley Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Wilfred Lucas John Dickinson (uncredited)

William Orlamond Matthew Kramer (uncredited)

B Bert Stevens Ratification Meeting Member (uncredited)

Ferris Taylor John Adams (uncredited)

Emmett Vogan George Reed (uncredited)

The Declaration of Independence

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