Alexander Hamilton Movie Part 1, George Washington Farewell

George Washington Farewell Address & Alexander Hamilton's Assumption Bill After a brief prologue with Washington and Hamilton at the end of the Revolutionary War, where Hamilton expounds on his nationalist views, the action fast forwards to the early 1790s and the first Washington term as president. Arliss is trying to push his financial plan for the federal government to assume all state debts to put the new United States of America on a sound financial basis. Love and his supporters which include a completely fictional character, a Senator Timothy Roberts, see the idea as a power grab. They want the capital relocated to somewhere in the southern states.

Roberts wants more than that. He offers to swing votes Hamilton's way in order to get a plum ambassadorship to Paris, in the midst of its own revolutionary problems. Arliss is mortified by the offer and flat turns him down. Senator Roberts vows revenge.

The revenge comes in petticoats in the person of Maria Reynolds. Her husband, encourages the affair with Hamilton and then seeks to blackmail him. Of course Hamilton is vulnerable in this way because his dear wife Elizabeth has had to visit her sister Angelica in London. Hamilton was of illegitimate birth and rose from poverty, a fact he never forgot.

Hamilton was at times, brilliant, loyal, arrogant all in the same person. In real life Hamilton was 49 when he died years later in that duel with Aaron Burr.

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[malindavanderwal]

thanks for the video

[gueramiux1]

:)

[Lissbirds]

Has anyone ever been able to find the 1924 silent film about Hamilton? I haven't had any luck finding it. :(

Thanks for posting this, though!

[northmeister]

@supressorgrid -- Hamilton, the near-son of Washington...Hamilton, the genius behind true Capitalism as America practiced it and became powerful...Hamilton, a patriot who sacrificed for the American Cause as aide-de-camp to General Washington...Hamilton, who supported Jefferson (true patriot) over Burr (schemer).

[zephonlucifer]

qorst cutting I have ever seen.

[supressorgrid]

Hamilton; The phantom of the white house.