1776(1972)

🎬141 min
📅1972-11-09
🎭Drama, History
6.8/10

Overview

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.

Production

Columbia Pictures, Jack L. Warner Productions

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Cast

William Daniels
as John Adams
Howard Da Silva
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
Ken Howard
as Thomas Jefferson
Blythe Danner
as Martha Jefferson
Donald Madden
as John Dickinson (PA)
John Cullum
as Edward Rutledge (SC)
David Ford
as Congressional President John Hancock (MA)
Ron Holgate
as Richard Henry Lee (VA)
Emory Bass
as James Wilson (PA)
Virginia Vestoff
as Abigail Adams