The Howards of Virginia (1940)

Directors

Frank Lloyd

Cast

Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Richard Carlson, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Phil Taylor, Rita Quigley

The story

In 1755, the father of 12-year-old Matt Howard (Dickie Jones) joins the Braddock Expedition against the French in the Ohio Country after being promised of land. Matt learns that his father died during the military expedition, and is consoled by his schoolmate and friend Thomas Jefferson (Buster Phelps). Matt (Cary Grant), now an adult and accomplished backwoodsman, sells the family farm in order to settle in Ohio.

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