Johnny Tremain (film)

1957 film directed by Robert Stevenson

Johnny Tremain is a 1957 film about the years in Boston, Massachusetts prior to the outbreak of the American Revolution.

Directed by Robert Stevenson. Written by Esther Forbes and Tom W. Blackburn, based on Forbes' 1944 novel.

Paul Revere edit

  • There's a time for casting silver and a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the Holy Writ, it should be.

James Otis edit

  • For we must fight this war, in meeting house and Congress and the halls of Parliament, as well as on the field! But what it's all about, you'll really never know. And yet it-it it's so much simpler than any of you think. We give all we have. We fight! We die, for a simple thing. Only that a man could stand.

Samuel Adams edit

  • This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!

Gen. Gage edit

  • [to his officers] You see those campfires, gentlemen? Yesterday we ruled over Boston. Tonight we are beseiged in it. And still they come from every village and farm. Tonight 10,000. Tomorrow perhaps twice 10,000. We've experienced more than a defeat, more than a mere misfortune of war. We have been vanquished by an idea, a belief in human rights.

Other edit

  • Ship Captain: [During the Boston Tea Party.] Isn't it odd? These Indians seem to prefer principles to profits.
  • Patriot Commander at Lexington: We'll stand by our orders, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.

Dialogue edit

Johnny Tremain: You trust me?
Rab Silsbee: Any reason why we shouldn't?

Paul Revere: [riding through a town at night] Turn out! Turn out your militia!
Villager: [opens window] What's all the noise down there?
Paul Revere: The Redcoats are coming!

Cast edit

External links edit

 
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