Abraham Lincoln

1930

1h 36m

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A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

Directors

D.W. Griffith

Writers

John W. Considine Jr.(story by)

Stephen Vincent Benet(adaptation by)

Stephen Vincent Benet(dialogue by)

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Walter Huston

Una Merkel

William L. Thorne

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Abraham Lincoln

Ann Rutledge

Tom Lincoln

Mid-Wife

Nancy Hanks Lincoln

Offut

Armstrong

Lincoln's Employer

Sheriff

Mary Todd Lincoln

Mrs. Edwards

Stephen A. Douglas …

Herndon

Tad Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

John Hay - Secretary to the President

James Bradbury Sr.

Gen. Winfield Scott

James Eagles

Young Soldier

Directors

D.W. Griffith

Writers

John W. Considine Jr.(story by)

Stephen Vincent Benet(adaptation by)

Stephen Vincent Benet(dialogue by)

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6/10

"Personally" directed by D. W. Griffith, this is a rather condensed version of the adult life of Abraham Lincoln. From his early life in the Kentucky backwoods where he grew up and his first love perished, through to his galvanising speech making, his election to the US Presidency followed by his decision to emancipate slaves eliciting a war that threatened his country with self-destruction before earning praise and enmity from his emergent and still divided nation. Walter Huston takes on the lead role and is about as wooden an actor as it's possible to get. Indeed, much of this looks and feels like it was a silent film with long, lingering, photography and a distinct paucity of dialogue until it livens up a bit towards the well documented denouement. Kay Hammond breathes a little life into affairs as his wife "Mary Todd" but for the most part this is a rather dry and all too adulatory, rose-tinted, biopic of a man we just don't have time to get to know as ninety minutes wings by. It's watchable, but really only as a "Janet and John" guide to this 13th President.

Geronimo196711 Jan, 2024