1776 (1972)

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Every American should watch this once a year.

August 26, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Semi-successful transfer to the big screen of the 1969 Broadway musical hit, nominated for the Best Cinematography Oscar.

August 10, 2005 Full Review

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

A star-spangled, all-singing delight.

February 18, 2005

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

A wonderful, witty underrated musical. A 4th of July tradition in my house.

July 23, 2004

Bob Bloom

Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Long and boring musical about the American Revolution.

February 9, 2004 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A whole lotta toe-tappin' musical patriotism.

July 26, 2002

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

Americans have a propensity for getting chummy with heroic figures of the past -- a tendency on display in this lightly amusing history lesson.

July 4, 2002 Full Review

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Spirituality and Practice

• 1. John Hancock: I'm still from Massachusetts, John. You know where I stand. I'll do whatever you say.
  2. John Adams: No. No, you're the president of Congress. You're a fair man, Hancock. Stay that way.
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• 1. Stephen Hopkins: Ah, Ben! I want you to see some cards I'd gone and had printed up. Oughta save everybody here a lot of time and effort, considering the epidemic of bad disposition that's been going on around here lately. "Dear Sir, you are without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son of a bitch." and you sign your name - what do you think?
  2. Benjamin Franklin: I'll take a dozen, right now.
  – Submitted by Adam O (6 days ago)
• 1. Richard Henry Lee: You've come to the one colony that can get job done: Virginia. The land that gave us our glorious commander in chief, George Washington, will now give the congress its proposal on independence. Where Virginia goes the south is bound to follow. And where the south goes, the middle colonies go! Gentlemen, a salute to Virginia, the mother of American independence!
  – Submitted by Adam O (6 days ago)
• 1. Benjamin Franklin: If we do not hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately!
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• 1. John Adams: It doesn't matter. I won't be in the history books anyway, only you. Franklin did this and Franklin did that and Franklin did some other damn thing. Franklin smote the ground and out sprang George Washington, fully grown and on his horse. Franklin then electrified him with his miraculous lightning rod and the three of them - Franklin, Washington, and the horse - conducted the entire revolution by themselves.
  – Submitted by Adam O (6 days ago)
• 1. Benjamin Franklin: Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
  – Submitted by Adam O (6 days ago)

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