This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New York was tried for sedition based on what he printed in his newspaper.
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John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)
Victor Kilian as John Peter Zenger (uncredited)
Naomi Childers as Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Mary Gordon as Woman Reading Newspaper (uncredited)
Edward Hearn as Trooper (uncredited)
John Hubbard as Attorney John Alexander (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale as Hank (uncredited)
John Nesbitt's Passing Parade: The Story That Couldn't Be Printed Trailer
United States 22 July 1939
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11 April 1949
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19 January 2017
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24 July 1943
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30 November 1940
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19 August 1939
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17 November 1939
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their household chores.
11 February 1939
Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
18 February 1939
This MGM short, part of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalk series, takes the viewer to the capital of British India, Delhi.
15 December 1939
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married.
28 July 1939
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
18 April 1939
Bill Carson assumes the identity of gang leader Trigger Mallory in order to fool his gang and his girlfriend.
19 January 1939
In California in 1848, Brunton through his stooge Sheriff is evicting the Mexicans from their ranches.
25 February 1939
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out.
11 March 1939
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it.
22 December 1939
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
05 January 1939
After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide Bureau to clean up all their cases, but without violating the constitutional rights of any suspect.
15 January 1939
The priest's daughter, Vappu Kankare first irritates and then admires the ambitious habitant, Jalmar "Jali" Kinnunen.
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