Overview
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.
Cast
- Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin
- Pat Hingle as John Adams
- Ken Howard as Thomas Jefferson
- William Atherton as Benjamin Rush
- E.G. Marshall as Narrator
- James Tolkan as Tom Paine
- Anne Jackson as Abigail Adams
- John Randolph as Samuel Adams
- Patrick O'Neal as George Washington
- Donald Symington as Richard Henry Lee