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November 5, 2011 10:48 AM Subscribe
What movie about the (US) Revolutionary War did I see in the mid-to-late 70s?
Around the 4th or 5th grade, my class went on a field trip to see a movie about the Revolutionary War. I remember it being interminably long for a 10 year old, and I've always thought of it as 3+ hours long.
As is common in these questions, I have a particular scene that sticks out: Lafayette has been shot in the leg, and a doctor uses a penknife to dig the bullet out. It was somewhat graphic, and there may have been whiskey poured onto the wound. I believe this occurred in a tent or teepee.
Around the 4th or 5th grade, my class went on a field trip to see a movie about the Revolutionary War. I remember it being interminably long for a 10 year old, and I've always thought of it as 3+ hours long.
As is common in these questions, I have a particular scene that sticks out: Lafayette has been shot in the leg, and a doctor uses a penknife to dig the bullet out. It was somewhat graphic, and there may have been whiskey poured onto the wound. I believe this occurred in a tent or teepee.
Definately not the musical 1776, if that's what you're thinking of, argonauta: no surgery OR Lafayette in that one; it takes place almost entirely in the Contimental Congress chambers.
posted by easily confused at 11:26 AM on November 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by easily confused at 11:26 AM on November 5, 2011 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Yeah, not a musical. I do hold out for the possibility that the movie covered a bit more time than just the war, but it wasn't a pilgrims-to-pioneers history lesson either.
posted by rhizome at 11:58 AM on November 5, 2011
posted by rhizome at 11:58 AM on November 5, 2011
There's also a 1961 film called Lafayette that's 158 minutes long (!) and has Orson Welles as Benjamin Franklin. According to this plot summary, the film shows that "In the process of rallying his men, Lafayette in wounded in the leg. Washington visits him in the field hospital. He tells the doctor to have Lafayette taken to his home at Mt. Vernon, Virginia," but no specific mention of a surgery scene.
(There was a Hallmark TV movie in 1975 called Valley Forge that at least has Lafayette in it.)
posted by argonauta at 12:13 PM on November 5, 2011
(There was a Hallmark TV movie in 1975 called Valley Forge that at least has Lafayette in it.)
posted by argonauta at 12:13 PM on November 5, 2011
... Barry Lyndon? no Revolution in that, but roughly the right time period?
posted by zomg at 1:45 PM on November 5, 2011
posted by zomg at 1:45 PM on November 5, 2011
Response by poster: Not as late as Barry Lyndon. I'd say that it probably takes place in some quantity of the 10 years around 1776.
posted by rhizome at 12:30 PM on November 6, 2011
posted by rhizome at 12:30 PM on November 6, 2011
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posted by argonauta at 11:07 AM on November 5, 2011