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Penn of Pennsylvania (Original title)Courageous Mr. Penn (Alternative title)
Date: 26 January 1942 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Lance Comfort

Synopsis: Biography about the Quaker from the time of Charles II and the grant to him of land in Pennsylvania. He constructs a settlement and negotiates peace with the Indians in spite of personal grief.

Genres:
Biopic, Historical drama
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 93 mins Length: 8374 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (9)
Production Company: British National Films, Produced by: Richard Vernon, Original Story and Screen Play by: Anatole de Grunwald, Director of Photography: Ernest Palmer, [Camera Operator]: Gus Drisse, [Focus Puller]: Arthur Grant, [Loader]: Henry Slagter, Music: William Alwyn
Cast (48)
Clifford Evans (William Penn), Deborah Kerr (Guglielma Springelt), Dennis Arundell (Charles II), Aubrey Mallalieu (Chaplain), D.J. Williams (Lord Arlington), O.B. Clarence, James Harcourt (Fox), Charles Carson (Admiral Penn), Henry Oscar (Pepys), Max Adrian (Elton), John Stuart (Bindle), Maire O'Neill (cook), Edward Rigby (Bushell), Joss Ambler (Lord Mayor of London), J.H. Roberts (Ford), Edmund Willard (ship's captain), Gus McNaughton (ship's mate), Percy Marmont (Holme), Gibb McLaughlin (Indian chief), Herbert Lomas (Cockle), Mary Hinton, Vincent Holman, G.H. Mulcaster, Lawrence Hanray, John Slater, David Keir, Frank Atkinson, Arthur Goullet, Bob Raynor, Hwfa Pryse, Andrea Troubridge, David Farrar, Nina Alvis, Henry Hewitt, W.E. Holloway, Manning Whiley, Drusilla Wills, Arthur Dent, Amy Dalby, Escott Davis, Gordon Begg, Arthur Dambling, Rosamund Greenwood, Ben Williams, Tony Quinn, Pat Sawyer, Henry Hallatt, Angela Glynne