Sons of Liberty (film)

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Sons of Liberty
Ernie Weckbaugh and Claude Rains
Directed byMichael Curtiz
Written byCrane Wilbur
Produced byGordon Hollingshead
StarringClaude Rains
Gale Sondergaard
Narrated byCharles Frederick Lindsley
CinematographySol Polito
Ray Rennahan
Edited byThomas Pratt
Music byHoward Jackson
Production
company
Warner Bros.
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • May 20, 1939 (1939-05-20)
Running time
20 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Sons of Liberty is a 1939 American short drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, which tells the story of Haym Solomon. At the 12th Academy Awards, held in 1940, it won an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).[1][2]

Leigh Ehlers Telotte wrote in George Washington on Screen, "Michael Curtiz's Sons of Liberty (1939) [stars] Claude Rains as Haym Salomon, an American patriot and a financier of the Revolution. In this 20-minute biopic of Salomon's life, he joins the Sons of Liberty in 1776, acts as a spy for General Washington (Montagu Love), meets Nathan Hale just before his execution, raises funds to support the Revolution, and dies in poverty at age 44."[3]

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