title: Valley Forge (film)
text: # Valley Forge (film)
  
  Valley Forge is a 1975 videotaped adaptation of the 1934 Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson. Directed and produced by Fielder Cook. Originally broadcast as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame series of specials.
  
  ## Plot
  
  The film concerns the American Revolutionary War encampment at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and a planned escape by the men desperate to leave behind the terrible conditions of the winter.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Richard Basehart as General George Washington
  * Harry Andrews as General William Howe
  * Simon Ward as Major John André
  * Victor Garber as General Lafayette
  * Christopher Walken as The Hessian
  * Edward Herrmann as Congressman Folsom
  * Nancy Marchand as Annie
  * John Heard as Mr. Harvie
  * Woodrow Parfrey as Minto
  * Lane Smith as Spad
  * Josef Sommer as Brig. Gen. 'Dusty' Varnum
  
  ## Production
  
  ### Writing
  
  To condense the plot, the seventy-five-minute production entirely omits the play's principal female character, Mary Philipse.
  
  ### Filming
  
  Shot partly on location in Canada.
  
  