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1776

The award winning musical comes to the screen!

1972 · G · 2h 21m

Directed by Peter H. Hunt

6.9

TMDB audience score
90 votes, out of 10

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Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.

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Cast

  • William Daniels
    John Adams

  • Howard Da Silva
    Dr. Benjamin Franklin

  • Ken Howard
    Thomas Jefferson

  • Blythe Danner
    Martha Jefferson

  • Donald Madden
    John Dickinson (PA)

  • John Cullum
    Edward Rutledge (SC)

  • David Ford
    Congressional President John Hancock (MA)

  • Ron Holgate
    Richard Henry Lee (VA)

  • Emory Bass
    James Wilson (PA)

  • Virginia Vestoff
    Abigail Adams

  • William Hansen
    Caesar Rodney (DE)

  • Roy Poole
    Stephen Hopkins (RI)

  • Ray Middleton
    Col. Thomas McKean (DE)

  • Stephen Nathan
    Courier

  • Ralston Hill
    Charles Thomson

  • William Duell
    Andrew McNair

  • James Noble
    Rev. John Witherspoon (NJ)

  • Howard Caine
    Lewis Morris (NY)