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The Howards of Virginia is a 1940 American drama war film directed by Frank Lloyd, released by Columbia Pictures, and based on the book The Tree of Liberty written by Elizabeth Page.
With Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal. 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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- Drama, History, War
- Frank Lloyd
- 1940-09-19
The story, which is taken from the first part of Elizabeth Page's novel, "The Tree of Liberty," is that of Matt Howard, a Virginia backwoodsman, who marries Jane Peyton, the daughter of an aristocratic Tidewater family, and of their life together during the years of this nation's birth.
THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA, screen play by Sidney Buchman; based on the novel, "The Tree of Liberty," by Elizabeth Page; directed and produced by Frank Lloyd for Columbia Pictures. At the Radio City ...
Synopsis. The film is set in colonial Virginia between the 1750s and 1781. 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.
Culture magazines. The Howards of Virginia. views 3,967,469 updated. The Howards of Virginia ★★½ Tree of Liberty 1940. A lavish Hollywood historical epic, detailing the adventures of a backwoodsman and the rich Virginia girl he marries as their families become involved in the Revolutionary War. 117m/B VHS, DVD .
Overview. 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.
