World War 2.
Vietnam.
The Civil War.
The Jedi-Sith Wars.
Good Vs. Evil
We hardly ever see a war movie about another war. But Disney provides us with a rare and wonderful look into our country when it was ruled by our cousins from across the pond. Seen through the eyes of Johnny Tremain, this drama gives the viewer an inside look into a war that helped shape the very freedoms that we enjoy today. A wonderful historical drama worthy of a view on your DVD player.
Johnny Tremain is the product of a time when a film made for television could wind up in theaters and you'd not notice the difference. In 1957, when this Revolutionary War drama was released to theaters, Walt Disney was savvy enough to ensure that movies which made their debut on that living room staple, TV, had no stigma attached to them.
Johnny Tremain represents director Robert Stevenson's debut outing for Disney. It is the first of nineteen theatrically-released Disney films that put Stevenson at the helm.
The film is adapted from Esther Forbes' award-winning 1940s account and while it reportedly takes a few dramatic licenses with the story, like most chapters of history that are more than two hundred years old, such inaccuracies are likely to be detected by an esoteric scholarly lot. Ultimate Disney Review
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