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Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip (2003) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2003 · 107 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Ken Burns
- Starring
- Tom Hanks, Keith David, Eli Wallach, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Amy Madigan
In the spring of 1903, on a fifty‑dollar wager, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson left San Francisco in a 20‑horsepower Winton touring car, determined to become the first person to drive across the United States in the fledgling “horseless carriage.” Skeptics doubted the automobile’s future, but Jackson’s daring road trip proved them wrong.
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