Johnny Tremain (film)

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

• 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

• 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

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

Gen. Gage

• [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

• 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

Johnny Tremain: You trust me?

Rab Silsbee: Any reason why we shouldn't?

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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

• Hal Stalmaster — Johnny Tremain
• Luana Patten — Priscilla Lapham
• Jeff York — James Otis
• Sebastian Cabot — Jonathan Lyte
• Richard Beymer — Rab Silsbee
• Rusty Lane — Samuel Adams
• Walter Sande — Paul Revere
• Whit Bissell — Josiah Quincy
• Walter Coy — Dr. Joseph Warren
• Will Wright — Mr. Lapham
• Virginia Christine — Mrs. Lapham
• Ralph Clanton — General Gage
• Lumsden Hare — Admiral Montagu
• Gavin Gordon — Colonel Smith
• Geoffrey Toone — Major Pitcairn

External links

• Johnny Tremain quotes at the Internet Movie Database