--- title: '1776 (1972)' type: 'film' director: 'Peter H. Hunt' released: '1972-01-01' runtime_minutes: 142 genres: - 'Music' - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/1776-1972' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068156/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # 1776 (1972) 1972 · 142 min · Music, Comedy · United States ## Synopsis 1776 is a 1972 American historical musical drama film directed by Peter H. Hunt and written by Peter Stone, based on his book for the 1969 Broadway musical of the same name, with music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards. Set in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776, it is a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The film stars William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, John Cullum and Blythe Danner. ## Credits - **Director:** [Peter H. Hunt](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-h-hunt) - **Screenplay:** [Peter Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-stone) - **Original Music Composer:** [Sherman Edwards](https://cinepixo.com/people/sherman-edwards) - **Producer:** [Jack Warner](https://cinepixo.com/people/jack-warner) - **Director of Photography:** [Harry Stradling](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-stradling-2) ## Cast - [Ralston Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/ralston-hill) as Charles Thomson - [Daniel Keyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-keyes) - [Daniel Keyes](https://cinepixo.com/people/daniel-keyes-2) as Josiah Bartlett - [Donald Madden](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-madden) as John Dickinson - [Jonathan Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/jonathan-moore) as Lyman Hall - [Howard Caine](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-caine) as Lewis Morris - [Virginia Vestoff](https://cinepixo.com/people/virginia-vestoff) as Abigail Adams - [Ron Holgate](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-holgate) as Richard Henry Lee - [Nicolas Coster](https://cinepixo.com/people/nicolas-coster) - [William Duell](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-duell) as Andrew McNair - [Blythe Danner](https://cinepixo.com/people/blythe-danner) as Martha Jefferson - [Howard da Silva](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-da-silva) as Benjamin Franklin - [Roy Poole](https://cinepixo.com/people/roy-poole) as Stephen Hopkins - [John Myhers](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-myhers) as Robert R. Livingston - [Ken Howard](https://cinepixo.com/people/ken-howard) as Thomas Jefferson ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Official site: http://www.1776themusical.com Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/1776-1972 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3597744); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.