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Congress | Musical
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Top Ten Films | 1972
Best Cinematography | 1973 | Harry Stradling
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 1973
Budget 6,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 2,800,000 USD
In an interview in TV Guide in the 1970's, Ken Howard related that he was rehearsing some of his lines from the play aloud while traveling on an airplane. The inflammatory revolutionary rhetoric caused the plane's crew to summon the police and he was questioned by the authorities when the plane landed.
All of the exchanges between John Adams and Abigail Adams are based on the real letters they wrote to each other while John was away. He called her his "dearest friend" and their letters ended with "Til then".
While it is a running gag of the film that John Adams is considered "obnoxious" and is "disliked" by the other members of the Continental Congress, in David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize winning biography "John Adams" McCullough said he had examined the written recollections of all the members of the Congress and none of them had anything but praise for Adams--except for John Adams himself.
Jefferson is shown announcing the outside temperature to the Congress on request. In real life, Thomas Jefferson kept meticulous hourly temperature logs during the sitting of the Continental Congress. On July 4, 1776, the highest temperature recorded was 76 degrees.
While it is generally accepted that John Hancock was the only one who signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone chose to have the congressional delegates sign the document on that date in the musical for dramatic effect.
"John Adams: I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress! And by God, I have had this Congress! For ten years, King George and his Parliament have gulled, cullied, and diddled these colonies with their illegal taxes! Stamp Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Acts, Tea Acts! And when we dared stand up like men, they have stopped our trade, seized our ships, blockaded our ports, burned our towns, and spilled our BLOOD! And still, this Congress refuses to grant ANY of my proposals on independence, even so much as the courtesty of open debate! Good God, what in hell are you waiting for?"
"John Dickinson: Mr. Jefferson, are you seriously suggesting that we publish a paper declaring to all the world that an illegal rebellion is, in reality, a legal one? Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Oh, Mr. Dickinson, I'm surprised at you. You should know that rebellion is always legal in the first person, such as "our rebellion." It is only in the third person - "their rebellion" - that it is illegal."
