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Penn of Pennsylvania (1942)

Directed by Lance Comfort

Overview

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.

Length 78 minutes

Actors

Deborah Kerr | Percy Marmont | Charles Carson | Edward Rigby | J. H. Roberts | John Stuart | Henry Oscar | Max Adrian | Edmund Willard | Aubrey Mallalieu | Clifford Evans | Gibb McLaughlin | James Harcourt | Maire O'Neill | D.J. Williams | Herbert Lomas | Gus McNaughton | O. B. Clarence | Joss Ambler | Dennis Arundell