April Morning (1988) (TV)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Delbert Mann

Writers (WGA):

Howard Fast (novel)
James Lee Barrett (teleplay)

Release Date:

24 April 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | History

Plot:

The "April Morning" here is the famous April 19, 1775 upon which the "Shot heard 'round the world" was fired...

Plot Keywords:

American Revolution | Coming Of Age | Historical | Based On Novel

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Tommy Lee Jones	...	Moses Cooper
Robert Urich	...	Joseph Simmons
Chad Lowe	...	Adam Cooper
Susan Blakely	...	Sarah Cooper
Meredith Salenger	...	Ruth Simmons
Rip Torn	...	Solomon Chandler
Joan Heney	...	Granny Cooper
Nicholas Kilbertus	...	John Parker
Griffith Brewer	...	Samuel Hadley
Thor Bishopric	...	Jonathan Harrington
Joel Miller	...	The Reverend
Brian Furlong	...	Joash Smith
Anthony Ulc	...	Simon Casper (as Tony Ulc)
Philip Spensley	...	John Buckman
Peter Colvey	...	Major John Pitcairn

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Québec, Québec, Canada

Company:

Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions

Trivia:

This was also the title and subject of the last film project of John Ford, but it is not clear whether the script was the one which Ford tried to make. There were other connections between James Lee Barrett and Ford, most notably that Barrett wrote the script of the TV remake of Ford's Stagecoach (1939) (Stagecoach (1986) (TV)).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the patriots crouch behind the stone walls of the road leading away from Concord to ambush the British, one of the Americans brushes against a stone wall and it moves.

a great fiction movie about the start of the revolutionary war.

i thought this movie was great! i saw it in my social studies class, and loved it. they really gave you some great information about how the war began. it may have been about a fictional boy and how he wanted to join the militia to impress his dad, but it had some real things that happened. one of them was not when the guy was riding on the horse screaming about the British coming. someone in my class thought that his job was cool because he got to ride on a horse through the town screaming about the British coming.. he then said if the British caught him, he would cover his eyes. i'm very glad my social studies teacher had us watch this movie, because it taught me more about how the war began. i give this movie two thumbs up.