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.
as Betsy Winthrop
as John Copeland
as Mrs. Murray
as Gen. Howe
as Cornwallis
as Courier
as Amanda
as Clara
as Adele
as Florence
as Gen. Tryon
as Gen. Clinton
as American Soldier
