1776 (1972) on TCM 2:30pm EST July 4, 2020

Allhallowsday · July 03, 2020, 01:48:24 PM

1776 (1972) on TCM 2:30pm EST July 4, 2020

TCM shows 1776 every year... and I always have it on. I really need to see this this year. I've always enjoyed the film because of three primary performers:

WILLIAM DANIELS, who is still with us

, HOWARD DaSILVA and KEN HOWARD. All the performances are wonderful.

It was pointed out to me at TCM's forum that it's the only time of year TCM broadcasts the film!

RCMerchant · July 04, 2020, 12:00:41 PM

Our teacher took us kids to see it in 1976!
It was the Bicentennial!

pennywise37 · July 19, 2020, 02:02:04 AM

when i was in high school we watched it they had the VHS they brought it i mean this was back in the 90's and they hadn't gotten a dvd player yet. i love a good musical but i thought 1776 was terrible. though it does have one actor David Ford from the show Dark shadows

Allhallowsday · July 22, 2020, 10:46:25 AM

Quote from: pennywise37 on July 19, 2020, 02:02:04 AM
when i was in high school we watched it they had the VHS they brought it i mean this was back in the 90's and they hadn't gotten a dvd player yet. i love a good musical but i thought 1776 was terrible. though it does have one actor David Ford from the show Dark shadows

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ER · August 21, 2020, 11:28:57 PM

A fine movie, and a Broadway hit about the Revolution long before Hamilton.

RCMerchant · August 21, 2020, 11:48:16 PM

They had a thing in 1976 called the Freedom Train- which had some amazing artifacts. I seen Lincoln's hat! It was in Kalamazoo. I went with Ann Rock, the big- tit neighbor girl!

pennywise37 · August 24, 2020, 02:19:50 AM

there's a video on you tube you guys should check out and it's got a women i think? or was it a guy? i forget which that and this was in the 50's they were there the night Lincoln was shot apparently they died like a week later or so after they filmed that

ER · August 25, 2020, 04:54:37 PM

Quote from: pennywise37 on August 24, 2020, 02:19:50 AM
there's a video on you tube you guys should check out and it's got a women i think? or was it a guy? i forget which that and this was in the 50's they were there the night Lincoln was shot apparently they died like a week later or so after they filmed that

From him appearing on a game show? Yeah, how about that? Time is strange.

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RCMerchant · August 25, 2020, 06:38:22 PM

^ Iv'e seen that. It's amazing.

ER · December 22, 2022, 11:54:38 PM

It took me years to figure out what bugged me about that dance number in 1776's song Cool Considerate Men, where the delegates promised to always go to the right (never to the left), and one night it came to me that the sentiments in the tune would be anachronistic, since the ideas of left and right in politics arose during the French Revolution, which was almost a decade and a half in the future from 1776. Boom! After realizing that the inner nagging departed like the demon Raghiga of the Sixth House after she was exorcized from me in New Orleans in 2001. (Yes, I'm kidding....actually the demon's name was Janet, and it was in San Juan.)