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Sep 27, 2016 - 11:02 AM
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Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot is a short film that does a very effective job of laying out many of the antecedents of the American Revolution. The 34-minute film was shot in the spring of 1956, as an orientation film for visitors to historic Colonial Williamsburg in the state of Virginia, and was photographed in the area restored by the Rockerfeller Foundation. The plot follows a fictional Virginia planter, "John Fry" (Jack Lord), who becomes a member of Virginia's House of Burgesses. Through contact with Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and other patriots, he gradually loses his ties with the pro-British faction and casts his lot with the rebels. The film was directed by George Seaton, shot in VistaVision by Haskell Boggs, and scored by Bernard Herrmann.
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The Crucible comes to mind. As does Drums Along The Mohawk, although the latter takes place in 1776. Perhaps The Last Of The Mohicans works, too. But oh, first & foremost Moby Dick.
These are off the top of my head.
I'm afraid Moby Dick belongs in the 19th Century.
It's not a period that has been that well served in movies. 'Plymouth Adventure' isn't very good, reduced to a potboiler. The movies like 'Revolution' or 'The Patriot' are just outside the bracket, and frankly not very good.
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Sep 27, 2016 - 11:06 AM
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Hurdy Gurdy
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Here's my comments on the recent film The Witch, set during your requested time-frame..
By: Kev McGann (Member)
I saw this film the other night at the arthouse cinema (FACT) in my city (Liverpool).
On reflection, my viewing of it was ruined by the ridiculously over the top reviews that I'd seen and heard during it's release build-up.
It's NOT the most frightening!!!, scary!!!, terrifying!!! film I will ever see (it's not really that frightening at all...I wouldn't even class it as a horror film 'til maybe the final 10 minutes...even then, only maybe).
It's a small, quiet, slow-burn film about the psychology of religion and fear and paranoia.
I imagine it's VERY authentic of it's period and time - New England, America, 1620(ish).
Sets, costumes, dialogue appear spot-on.
For a film budgeted around $1 million, it's very clever indeed.
But had I viewed it with the correct expectations, I would have probably been more impressed (as I have been the more I've thought about it), but the actual viewing experience was ruined by what it most certainly wasn't.
The screening was pretty packed and I felt it wasn't just me - at the end - who was disappointed by it's mis-selling and underwhelming mood.
It's a modest, art-house, period drama with a supernatural twist. Hyperbolic reviewers need to shut the fu*k up.
But I guess that's all moot. It's been a roaring success for the makers and studio, so they did the right thing, I guess.
*edit*
Oh yeah, the music. Impressive in the film...chilly and unsettling. Not something I would ever want to play or hear apart from the film though.
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'The New World', one of several Pocahontas movies.
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'The Scarlet Letter', after Hawthorne
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Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952) : the British make use of the cruel Hessian soldiers, but Lex Barker sorts 'em out...
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Sep 27, 2016 - 11:21 AM
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Try THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA, a 1940 Cary Grant movie, and 1941's THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER is worth checking out, as is THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE from 1959 with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Lawrence Olivier.
You, being Thor, might not believe this but a 1946 Abbott and Costello movie called THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES is also worth checking out and a lot of fun.
I also very much like JOHN PAUL JONES from 1959, though it's a rather stilted movie.
There's also a 1957 Disney movie called JOHNNY TREMAIN that's not bad.
In general, though, not too many movies about this period.
If I think of any others I'll check back in. Meanwhile, why not go watch THE SAND PEBBLES?
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Grant movie, and 1941's THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER is worth checking out ....
19th Century really.
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'Northwest Passage'.
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Hudson's Bay
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