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      • Matt Howard (Cary Grant), orphaned son of a backwoods Virginia farmer, uses his connections with his schoolmate Tom Jefferson to get employment as a surveyor and acquire a thousand acres on the Shenandoah.
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  2. In 1755, the father of 12-year-old Matt Howard ( Dickie Jones) joins the Braddock Expedition against the French in the Ohio Country after being promised 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land. Matt learns that his father died during the military expedition, and is consoled by his schoolmate and friend Thomas Jefferson (Buster Phelps).

  3. Colonial Virginia farmer Matt Howard (Cary Grant) wants to travel to the dangerous Ohio frontier to claim land, but his well-meaning friend Thomas Jefferson (Richard Carlson) convinces him to stay, even playing matchmaker between Matt and wealthy socialite Jane Peyton (Martha Scott).

    • (1.3K)
    • Drama, History, War
    • Frank Lloyd
    • 1940-09-19
  4. Cary Grant plays Matt Howard, a friend of Thomas Jefferson, who is a down-to-earth surveyor working for aristocrat Fleetwood Peyton. He falls in love with Peyton's daughter, Jane (Martha Scott). They move back to Matt's home district and start to raise their family.

  5. 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.

  6. When his impoverished past is uncovered, Matt Howard (Cary Grant) is promptly fired by the Peytons, a wealthy family in Williamsburg during the Revolutionary War era.

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    • Frank Lloyd
    • History, Drama
    • Cary Grant
  7. James Howard Richard Gaines Patrick Henry George Houston George Washington Sam McDaniel Virginia Sale Neighbor Girl (uncredited) Ralph Byrd James Howard Dickie Jones Young Matt Howard Wade Boteler Uncle Reuben Mary Field Susan Howard Lane Chandler Major (uncredited) Brandon Hurst Wilton (uncredited) Alan Ladd Backwoodsman (uncredited) Frank ...

  8. 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. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.