The Howards of Virginia

The Howards of Virginia
by Frank Lloyd

The Howards of Virginia
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Actor: Alan Marshal, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Martha Scott, Richard Carlson
Director: Frank Lloyd
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of The Howards of Virginia

Movie Review: More soap opera than Revolutionary saga
Summary: 3 Stars

A notorious box-office disaster in its day, The Howards of Virginia (also known as The Tree of Liberty) is an engaging but curious colonial drama set during the American War of Independence with Cary Grant in Gunga Din rambunctious tearaway mode, which is a bit embarrassing when he overdoes it, which is often. The most surprising thing about Frank Lloyd's picture is that despite the amount of money and resources being thrown into it, the director clearly has no interest whatsoever in spectacle - hundreds of extras are featured in battles, parades or crowd scenes that are dismissed in a single establishing shot as if he wanted to hide their presence and get back indoors to his stars. Still, it's an entertaining enough saga. No extras on the DVD at all.

Summary of The Howards of Virginia

With its straightforward retelling of events leading up to the American Revolution, The Howards of Virginia is a standard slice of patriotism from Hollywood's golden age. Adapted by noted screenwriter Sidney Buchman from Elizabeth Page's 1939 bestseller Tree of Liberty, this colonial melodrama is notorious for saddling Cary Grant with one of his most ill-fitting roles, and it's true that Grant's 20th-century style clashes with his portrayal of buckskinned rebel Matt Howard. Still, his performance is far from being "really bad" (as critic Pauline Kael harshly opined), and Martha Scott brings tenacious dignity to her role as Howard's pragmatic wife, who defies her aristocratic family to join her new husband in the wilderness of Ohio. The stirrings of rebellion clash with some thankfully outmoded Hollywood clich?s (such as Howard's initial rejection of his mildly disabled son), but overall this remains a respectable and altogether engaging historical adventure, encompassing the early career of Thomas Jefferson and noteworthy for its meticulous attention to period detail. --Jeff Shannon

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