SOUND FEATURES: THE HOWARDS OF VIRGINIA (1940)

CREDITS

Released: September 19, 1940

Production Company: Frank Lloyd Productions

Featured Cast: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson, Paul Kelly, Irving Bacon, Elisabeth Risdon, Anne Revere, Tom Drake, Phil Taylor, Rita Quigley, Libby Taylor, Richard Gaines, George Houston, Ralph Byrd, Dickie Jones, Buster Phelps, Wade Boteler, Mary Field, Roy Gordon, Charles Francis, Rafael Alcayde, Conrad Binyon, Bobby Callahan, Lane Chandler, Peter Cushing, Vernon Downing, Eddie Dunn, Sarah Edwards, Tom Fadden, Joe Farey, Leon Farey, John Gallaudet, Ralph Gilliam, Jesse Graves, J. Franklin Harrison, June Hedin, Leyland Hodgson, J. Anthony Hughes, Brandon Hurst, Olaf Hytten, Boyd Irwin, Claude King, Alan Ladd, Leonard Lawrence, Richard Lyon, Terry Moore, Jason Robards Sr., Virginia Sale, Pat Somerset, Emmett Vogan, Eddy Waller, Dick Wessel, James Westerfield, Dan White

Director: Frank Lloyd

Producer: Frank Lloyd

Associate Producer: Jack H. Skirball

Associate Director: James Curtis Havens

Cinematography: Bert Glennon

Editor: Paul Weatherwax

Assistant Director: William Tummel

Art Director: John B. Goodman

Interior Decorator: Howard Bristol

Composer: Richard Hageman

Sound Recordist: William A. Wilmarth

Sound: Jack Whitney

Orchestrator: Lucien Cailliet, Herman Hand

Montage Effects: Slavko Vorkapich

Writers: Elizabeth Page (novel “The Tree of Liberty”),

Sidney Buchman (screenplay)

STORY

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

AWARDS

Nominated for 2 Oscar Awards.

1941
Academy Awards, USA
Nominated, Oscar
Best Sound, Recording
Jack Whitney (general service ssd)

Nominated, Oscar
Best Music, Original Score
Richard Hageman

TECH

Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Color Black and White
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Film Length (13 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm


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