Give Me Liberty
"The Most Inspiring and Important Short In Recent Years"
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Top Cast
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John Litel
Patrick Henry
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Nedda Harrigan
Doxie Henry
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Carlyle Moore Jr.
Capt. Milton
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Robert Warwick
George Washington
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George Irving
Thomas Jefferson
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Boyd Irwin
British Commissioner
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Gordon Hart
Anti-Rebel Delegate Speaker
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Myrtle Stedman
Martha Washington
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Ted Osborne
Randolph Peyton
Overview
Patrick Henry's rousing speech before the Virginia legislature argues for colonial independence.
Rating
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1 Reviews
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CinemaSerf5 Jun 28, 2025Despite an half-decent effort from John Litel as he takes to a church in Virginia as Patrick Henry to espouse liberty from British colonial rule, the rest of this is all a rather lacklustre and overly theatrical costume drama with some serious over-acting. The presence of neatly suited and booted characters like “Moses” isn’t deemed relevant as these privileged white folks pontificate about liberty and freedom whilst just about every manual function in their lives is carried out by slaves. It’s that hypocrisy that becomes a little harder to stomach as this sets about illustrating, albeit inadvertently, that for the vast majority of women and for just about everyone of colour in Virginia, and elsewhere, all this would result in is a change from wigged and proud gents in London to equally wigged and proud gents closer to home. Had they just stuck to allowing Litel to deliver a complete version of Henry’s rousing and impassioned speech as if it were a monologue, then it might have worked. They didn’t, and what we have here is a borderline and nauseatingly simplistic critique on the glories of the as yet unformed USA versus the supposed and exaggerated tyrannies of the Old World. I found this to be annoying, sorry!
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