MusicWarTV Movie

Dearest Enemy

Name: Dearest Enemy
Director: Max Liebman
Genre: Music, War, TV Movie
Released: 1955-11-26
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 10.0
Cast: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Cyril Ritchard, Donald Burr

November 26, 1955

1h 17m

TMDB10.0· 1

This live TV adaptation of the Broadway musical "Dearest Enemy" from 1925 is based on an American Revolutionary War incident in September 1776 when Mary Lindley Murray, under orders from General George Washington, detained General William Howe and his British troops by serving them cake, wine and conversation in her Kips Bay, Manhattan home long enough for some 4,000 American soldiers, fleeing their loss in the Battle of Brooklyn, to reassemble in Washington Heights and join reinforcements to make a successful counterattack.