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Abraham Lincoln

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5.4/10 • 38

1930-11-081h 36m

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The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!

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
Editors
James Smith

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  1. Walter Huston

    Walter Huston

    Abraham Lincoln

  2. Una Merkel

    Una Merkel

    Ann Rutledge

  3. William L. Thorne

    William L. Thorne

    Tom Lincoln

  4. Lucille La Verne

    Lucille La Verne

    Mid-Wife

  5. Helen Freeman

    Helen Freeman

    Nancy Hanks Lincoln

  6. Otto Hoffman

    Otto Hoffman

    Offut

  7. Edgar Dearing

    Edgar Dearing

    Armstrong

  8. Russell Simpson

    Russell Simpson

    Lincoln's Employer

  9. Charles Crockett

    Charles Crockett

    Sheriff

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CinemaSerf

Jan 11, 2024

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
--
Revenue
$400,000.00
Keywords
assassinationillinoisbiographydebatecourtshipamerican civil waremancipationabolitionistabraham lincolnproclamationford's theatre