April Morning
by Delbert Mann
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Actor: Chad Lowe, Meredith Salenger, Robert Urich, Susan Blakely, Tommy Lee JonesDirector: Delbert Mann
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, EP, NTSC
Running Time: 99 minutes
Release Date: 1996-11-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: Hallmark
Studio: Hallmark
VHS Movie Reviews of April Morning
Movie Review: Disperse Ye Rebels! Disperse!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a decent film that deserves to be re-issued on DVD. While not a big budget opus like infamous Mel Gibson's THE PATRIOT, this is a much higher quality film overall. While a bit slow in the beginning with family relationships in Lexington, the film picks up when the British at last appear on the screen! There is a nice shot of the British columm deploying impressively into line to face Captain Parker's company. The only problem here is that the British force at this point consisited of six companies of Light Infantry who jogged into town at a fast clip before forming line opposite the militia. This would have been less impressive to show, plus i guess the available re-enactors could not all be shown in Light Infantry garb. So we get the usual mix of line companies, Grenadiers and Lights all in group together! Colorful, but not accurate!
The confrontation on Lexington Green is made out to be the fault of a renegade Irishman who fires the mysterious first shot of the Revolution. This guy seems like an IRA Fenian several generations ahead of his time! None the less it provides an excuse for how the war began. The British are shown rather impersonally. The officers dry and slightly arrogant. It would have been nice to have expounded more on their circumstances in the beginning of the film. Major Pitcarrin of the Royal Marines for example was universally admired by rebels in Boston for his firm, but fair manner.
The battle scenes are none the less exciting and well done. While the Americans are shown doing their thing from behind cover popping away at the red-coats, the British Lights are also depicted as countering their moves with skirmesher tactics. On the whole this is well done. The fatigue the British column starts to suffer is well portrayed. Again, we should have only Grenadiers and Light Infantry since these were the collected elite companies brought together for this mission. The tri-corned hat men of the line should only be shown coming up with Lord Percy later on. Still, this is a relatively minor detail which most not familier with the British army of the 18th century will not notice (or care about).
The acting is well done overall, Tommy Lee Jones seems way out of place here in a period movie. One keeps expecting him to reveal his under cover cop badge or something! Still, the plot and acting work to create a decent film about the early days of the Revolution. Deffinitely one of your better American Rev War flicks. Should be re-issued on DVD someday.
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