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.
John Litel
as Thomas Jefferson
Ted Osborne
as Caesar Rodney
Rosella Towne
as Betsy Kramer
Richard Bond
as Thomas Lynch Jr.
Owen King
as Edward Rutledge
Lionel Belmore
as The Innkeeper (uncredited)
Sidney Bracey
as Congress Clerk (uncredited)
Tom Chatterton
as Richard Henry Lee (uncredited)
Hal Craig
as Man Shooting at Rodney (uncredited)
Henry Hall
as John Hancock (uncredited)
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With the slightly incongruous strains of “God Save The King” accompanying this short feature, it offers us a zealous and simplistic, “Janet and John” guide to those brave men who decided to separate from the mother country and set out on their road to freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I...