Land of Liberty (1939)
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Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited… More Originally designed for exhibition at the 1939 World's Fair, Land of Liberty is a 137-minute compendium of filmclips from past American historical epics. The project was sponsored by the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille, who also edited the film with the assistance of his crack Paramount production staff. The narration was written by old DeMille hands Jeannie MacPherson and Jesse Lasky Jr. and spoken by a talented team of uncredited announcers (one of whom sounded suspiciously like old C. B. himself). Clips from such Hollywood productions as America (1924), Abraham Lincoln (1930), Alexander Hamilton (1931), Show Boat (1936), Man of Conquest (1939) and DeMille's own The Plainsman (1936), The Buccaneer (1938) and Union Pacific (1939) are woven together into a chronological continuity, tracing American history from the Revolutionary War to the "present," which is largely represented by newsreel footage of President Roosevelt, the TVA project, and other current personalities and events. In later years, Land of Liberty was redistributed on the classroom circuit, with new footage added from historical dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Cast
- Anton Walbrook
- Earl Hodgins
- George Raft
- Henry B. Walthall
- Owen King
- John Hyams
- George O'Brien
- John Miljan
- Gene Lockhart
- Jack J. Clark
- C. Henry Gordon
- George Arliss
- John Litel
- Richard Dix
- Vernon Steele
- Raymond Massey
- Frank McGlynn Sr.
- Leila McIntyre
- Gordon Hart
- Spring Byington
- John Hamilton
- Addison Richards
- Crane Wilbur
- Lewis Stone
- Sidney Blackmer
- Frank Hopper
- Charles Herzinger
- Edwin Maxwell
- George Irving
- Robert Warwick
- Claude King
- Henry O'Neill
- Jonathan Hale
- Don Ameche
- Edward Arnold
- George Bancroft
- Binnie Barnes
- John Barrymore
- Lionel Barrymore
- Warner Baxter
- Noah Beery Sr.
- Janet Beecher
- Wallace Beery
- Eleanor Boardman
- Beulah Bondi
- William 'Stage' Boyd
- Walter Brennan
- George Brent
- Johnny Mack Brown
- Virginia Bruce
- Bob Burns
- Harry Carey
- Mary Carr
- John Carradine
- Leo Carrillo
- Claudette Colbert
- Walter Connolly
- Jackie Coogan
- Gary Cooper
- Bette Davis
- Dead End Kids
- Irene Dunne
- Henry Fonda
- Janet Gaynor
- Bonita Granville
- Sara Haden
- Jack Holt
- Walter Huston
- Ian Keith
- James Kirkwood
- Lucien Littlefield
- Montagu Love
- Joel McCrea
- Fredric March
- Robert Montgomery
- Dickie Moore
- Anna Neagle
- Gale Page
- Gail Patrick
- Elizabeth Patterson
- Irving Pichel
- Luise Rainer
- Claude Rains
- Stanley Ridges
- Paul Robeson
- Ann Rutherford
- Joseph Schildkraut
- Randolph Scott
- James Stewart
- Margaret Sullavan
- Theodore von Eltz
- Loretta Young
- Spencer Tracy
- Akim Tamiroff
- Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
