The Howards of Virginia (1940)

It is not very often that I have the opportunity of viewing a Cary Grant film that I have never seen before and I was hoping for the best.  Sadly this was a disappointment, being something of a potboiler of the years before and during the American Revolutionary War.  Grant was too much a man of his time and costume dramas just do not work for him.  Objectively he looked great but one could sense that he was uncomfortable in the role of a backwoodsman mixing in high society.  He also adopted the most un-Cary Grant voice I have ever heard him use, sounding more like a West Country bumpkin than a southern would-be gent. It is really only worth seeing for completists (but I guess that includes me!)