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Abraham Lincoln
The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!
An episodic dramatization of the 18th President of the United States' life, including his early years, affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, debates with Stephen A. Douglas, the election of 1860, his presidency during the Civil War, and finally his assassination at Ford's Theater in 1865.
- Original title
- Abraham Lincoln
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- $400,000
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Jan 11, 2024 · via TMDB
"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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Walter Huston
Abraham Lincoln
Una Merkel
Ann Rutledge
William L. Thorne
Tom Lincoln
Lucille La Verne
Mid-Wife
Helen Freeman
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Otto Hoffman
Offut
Edgar Dearing
Armstrong
Russell Simpson
Lincoln's Employer
Charles Crockett
Sheriff
Kay Hammond
Mary Todd Lincoln
E. Alyn Warren
Stephen A. Douglas / General Grant
Jason Robards Sr.
Herndon
Ian Keith
John Wilkes Booth
Cameron Prud'Homme
John Hay - Secretary to the President
James Bradbury Sr.
Gen. Winfield Scott
Oscar Apfel
Secretary of War Stanton
Frank Campeau
General Sheridan
Hobart Bosworth
General Robert E. Lee
Henry B. Walthall
Colonel Marshall
Hank Bell
Townsman in Offut's Store (uncredited)
Maurice Black
Conspirator (uncredited)
Ed Brady
Confederate Courier (uncredited)
Robert Brower
(uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
Conspirator (uncredited)
Mary Forbes
Actress (uncredited)
Francis Ford
Sheridan's Aide (uncredited)
Robert Homans
A Senator - One of Lincoln's Advisors (uncredited)
Jane Keckley
Matchmaker (uncredited)
Robert Keith
Union Courier (uncredited)
Henry Kolker
New Englander (uncredited)
Ralph Lewis
Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
George MacQuarrie
Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Minor Role (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
Harry Stubbs
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Kathrin Clare Ward
Townswoman at Ann's Death (uncredited)
William Cameron Menzies
Settings
Karl Struss
Director of Photography
D.W. Griffith
Director
Hugo Riesenfeld
Music
Stephen Vincent Benet
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Stephen Vincent Benet
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