"...Grant meets the exigencies of a difficult role with more gusto than persuasion."
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| With Paul Kelly. |
The Howards of Virginia - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"Elizabeth Page's best seller of last year, The Tree of Liberty, comes to the screen as The Howards of Virginia. Although using only a portion of the 985-page novel, Columbia still seems to have tackled a larger canvas than it could paint effectively, with the result that this cavalcade of Colonial and Revolutionary America, while ambitious, expensive, and generally interesting, comes to life all to infrequently.
Adapted by Sidney Buchman and directed by Frank Lloyd, the Howard saga is most effective in the sequences that recreate frontier life and manners as seen through the eyes of the woman who loves her husband while rebelling against his democratic ideas. These sequences are impressive in their homely humor and realism, though much footage otherwise wasted inevitably pulls the emotional punches in the story of Matt's relationship with his wife and children.
Obviously miscast, Cary Grant meets the exigencies of a difficult role with more gusto than persuasion. Martha Scott follows her impressive screen debut in Our Town with a sincere if more conventional characterization. That this history has been staged with exceptional fidelity, is due in part to the fact that its Williamsburg sequences were filmed on location in the historic city which was reconstructed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. as a $20,000,000 project to perpetuate America's past."
- Newsweek
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| New Artwork by Rebekah Hawley at Studio36 - Number 37 - The Howards of Virginia (Lobby Card Style) |
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