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The Howards of Virginia ()

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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.
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Matt Howard
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Jane Peyton-Howard
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Fleetwood Peyton (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
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Roger Peyton
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Thomas Jefferson
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Captain Jabez Allen
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Tom Norton
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Aunt Clarissa (as Elizabeth Risdon)
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Mrs. Norton
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James Howard at 16 (as Richard Alden)
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Peyton Howard at 18
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Mary Howard at 17
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Dicey
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Patrick Henry
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George Washington
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James Howard
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Matt Howard at 12
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Tom Jefferson at 11
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Uncle Reuben
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Susan Howard
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Colonel Jefferson (as R. Wells Gordon)
Charles Francis ...
Mr. Douglas
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Lafayette (uncredited)
Walter Bacon ...
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Conrad Binyon ...
Neighbor Boy (uncredited)
George Boyce ...
Representative (uncredited)
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Boy (uncredited)
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Major (uncredited)
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Leslie Stephens (uncredited)
Jack Deery ...
Representative (uncredited)
Vernon Downing ...
John Walker (uncredited)
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Dunkel (uncredited)
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Neighbor (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
Joe Farey ...
Dunkel (uncredited)
Leon Farey ...
Dunkel (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
Ralph Gilliam ...
Boy (uncredited)
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Robert (uncredited)
J. Franklin Harrison ...
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
June Hedin ...
Young Mary Howard (uncredited)
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British Officer (uncredited)
J. Anthony Hughes ...
Tidewater Representative (uncredited)
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Wilton (uncredited)
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Witt (uncredited)
Boyd Irwin ...
Speaker of the House of Burgess (uncredited)
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Governor of Virginia (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
Leonard Lawrence ...
Boy (uncredited)
Walter Lawrence ...
Representative (uncredited)
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Young Peyton Howard (uncredited)
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Neighbor Girl (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
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Neighbor (uncredited)
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Representative (uncredited)
Allen D. Sewall ...
Neighbor (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
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Representative (uncredited)
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Patriot Scout (uncredited)
Glen Walters ...
Neighbor (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
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Backwoodsman (uncredited)
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Will (uncredited)

Directed by

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Frank Lloyd

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Sidney Buchman ... (screen play)
 
Elizabeth Page ... (novel "The Tree of Liberty")

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Frank Lloyd ... producer
Jack H. Skirball ... associate producer

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Richard Hageman

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Bert Glennon ... (photographed by)

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Paul Weatherwax ... (edited by)

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John B. Goodman ... (as John Goodman)

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Irene Saltern

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William Tummel ... assistant director

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Howard Bristol ... interior decorator

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William A. Wilmarth ... sound recordist (as Wm. H. Wilmarth)
Jack Whitney ... sound (uncredited)

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Slavko Vorkapich ... montage effects

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Irene Saltern ... gowns: Miss Scott
Eugene Joseff ... costume jeweller (uncredited)

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Lucien Cailliet ... orchestrator (uncredited)
Herman Hand ... orchestrator (uncredited)

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Waldo Twitchell ... technical advisor
Daniel Keefe ... assistant to director (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. This puts him in direct conflict with Jane's brother Fleetwood, who supports the Crown.

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Also Known As
  • The Tree of Liberty (United States)
  • The Tree of Liberty (United Kingdom)
  • Howard le révolté (France)
  • Pasión de libertad (Spain)
  • 明日への戦ひ (Japan, Japanese title)
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Trivia The film's failure hit Cary Grant so hard that he refused all period roles he was offered with the he exception of The Pride and the Passion (1957), which ultimately failed to make a profit. See more »
Goofs There are several inconsistencies in the chronology of Matt Howard's life and the progression of the American Revolutionary milestones presented in the film. Matt's father is killed in the early years of the French and Indian War, which would place his death no earlier than 1754 (more likely no earlier than 1756). The film then shows a title card indicating that twelve years had passed, thus placing the timeline of the film in the mid-to-late 1760s. Matt, however, learns of the recent passage of the Stamp Act and England's taxation measures toward the colonies. The Stamp Act was instituted in 1756, making it impossible for Matt's father to have died in the French and Indian War and for twelve years to have passed. As an adult, Matt then meets, courts, and marries Jane Peyton (presumably in 1766 or 1768 according to the date of his father's death) and moves to western Virginia to homestead and fathers three children. Matt learns of the Boston Tea Party (December 1773) and the Intolerable Acts of 1774 near the time that his family visits the Peytons' home in Virginia. At this time, Matt's three children are an unspecified age, but Peyton (the oldest) appears no more than five years of age, and James (the youngest) is just a baby. The male children, however, join their father in the Colonial Army. It is strongly inferred that the young men join Matt during the lean Winter of 1777-1778, and it is clear that they are seasoned soldiers by the Battle of Yorktown (1781). The film depicts the sons as teenagers, slightly under the age of eighteen when they join their father and presumably older than eighteen by the Battle of Yorktown. However, using news of the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, and Intolerable Acts as points of reference, the oldest boy would have been no older than eleven and the youngest no older than nine by the date of the Battle of Yorktown, (Presumably they would have been even younger unless Jane conceived each child almost immediately after giving birth.) See more »
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