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Penn of Pennsylvania is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lance Comfort with Clifford Evans

Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)

Penn of Pennsylvania
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Length 1h18
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Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating56% 2.8158952.8158952.8158952.8158952.815895

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.

Actors

Clifford Evans

(William Penn)Deborah Kerr

(Gulielma Maria Springett)Aubrey Mallalieu

(Chaplain)O. B. Clarence

(Lord Cecil)Charles Carson

(Adm. Penn)
And :
Henry Oscar
Max Adrian
John Stuart
Maire O'Neill
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