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Title: Old Fashioned Patriotic Fun
Review: This is a classic. I remember seeing it in elementary school for class. I don't know that we learned much except that history can be fun.This is not "history" in any meaningful sense. It is a historical drama set at the time of the beginning of the American Revolution in the city of Boston. The title character is a young apprentice silversmith who becomes caught up in the "Sons of Liberty" patriotic organization. He takes part in the Boston Tea Party, the signaling from the Old North Church and the running fight from Concord back to Boston. Along the way he carries himself in a responsible and honorable manner. So too are the British (mostly) depicted as honorable people. The teaching value of this film is not in the teaching of historical facts but in the depiction of attitudes and conditions and some of the political causes of the war. Even so, don't watch this for the lesson. Watch it for the story.
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