The Howards Of Virginia (1940)

The Howards Of Virginia (1940)

„The Howards Of Virginia“ is a 1940 drama war film directed by Frank Lloyd. The screenplay by Sidney Buchman is based on the 1939 novel „The Tree of Liberty“ by Elizabeth Page.

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

Cast:

• Cary Grant – Matt Howard
• Martha Scott – Jane Peyton-Howard
• Cedric Hardwicke – Fleetwood Peyton
• Alan Marshal – Roger Peyton
• Richard Carlson – Thomas Jefferson
• Paul Kelly – Captain Jabez Allen
• Irving Bacon – Tom Norton
• Elisabeth Risdon – Aunt Clarissa
• Anne Revere – Mrs. Norton
• Tom Drake – James Howard at 16
• Phil Taylor – Peyton Howard at 18
• Rita Quigley – Mary Howard at 17
• Libby Taylor – Dicey
• Richard Gaines – Patrick Henry
• George Houston – George Washington
• Ralph Byrd – James Howard
• Dickie Jones – Matt Howard at 12
• Buster Phelps – Tom Jefferson at 11
• Wade Boteler – Uncle Reuben
• Mary Field – Susan Howard
• Roy Gordon – Colonel Jefferson
• Charles Francis – Mr. Douglas
• Tom Fadden – Backwoodsman
• John Gallaudet – Backwoodsman
• Alan Ladd – Backwoodsman
• Jason Robards Sr. – Backwoodsman
• Pat Somerset – Backwoodsman
• Dick Wessel – Backwoodsman
• James Westerfield – Backwoodsman
• Peter Caldwell – Blonde schoolboy in classroom
• Bobby Callahan – Boy
• Ralph Gilliam – Boy
• Leonard Lawrence – Boy
• Leyland Hodgson – British Officer
• Eddie Dunn – Dunkel
• Joe Farey – Dunkel
• Leon Farey – Dunkel
• Claude King – Governor of Virginia
• Vernon Downing – John Walker
• Rafael Alcayde – Lafayette
• Peter Cushing – Leslie Stephens
• Lane Chandler – Major
• Sarah Edwards – Neighbor
• Virginia Sale – Neighbor
• Allen D. Sewall – Neighbor
• Glen Walters – Neighbor
• Conrad Binyon – Neighbor Boy
• Terry Moore – Neighbor Girl
• Eddy Waller – Patriot Scout
• George Boyce – Representative
• Jack Deery – Representative
• Walter Lawrence – Representative
• Scott Seaton – Representative
• Emmett Vogan – Representative
• Jesse Graves – Robert
• Boyd Irwin – Speaker of the House of Burgess
• J. Anthony Hughes – Tidewater Representative
• J. Franklin Harrison – Undetermined Secondary Role
• Walter Bacon – Wedding Guest
• Dan White – Will
• Brandon Hurst – Wilton
• Olaf Hytten – Witt
• June Hedin – Young Mary Howard
• Richard Lyon – Young Peyton Howard

„Die Howards von Virginia“ ist ein Kriegsdrama aus dem Jahr 1940 unter der Regie von Frank Lloyd. Das Drehbuch von Sidney Buchman basiert auf dem 1939 erschienenen Roman „The Tree of Liberty“ von Elizabeth Page.

Kurz vor dem Amerikanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg heiratet die aristokratische Virginierin Jane Peyton den einfachen Landwirt und Landvermesser Matt Howard, der sie auf seine Plantage im Shenandoah-Tal mitnimmt und später in den Krieg zieht.