Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 141 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- philadelphia
- pennsylvania
- congress
- musical
- based on true story
- based on play or musical
- 18th century
- founding fathers
- declaration of independence
- informative
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Directed
- Peter H. Hunt
- Written
- Peter Stone
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 89 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Jack L. Warner Productions
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