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    The Howards of Virginia

    1940 · Historical drama · 2h 2m

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  1. 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
  2. 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.

    • The Tree of Liberty, 1939 novel, by Elizabeth Page
    • Frank Lloyd, Jack H. Skirball (associate producer)
  3. 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.

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  5. Synopsis. 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.

    • 1940
    • Frank Lloyd
  6. 1940. 1 hr 56 mins. Drama. NR. Watchlist. The former surveyor for a wealthy Williamsburg family infiltrates his way back into their lives by marrying the aristocratic daughter. Their marriage is...

  7. Novel. Sidney Buchman. Screenplay. 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.

  8. family, husband-and-wife, revolution, war. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for The Howards of Virginia (1940) - Frank Lloyd on AllMovie - Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War…

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