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Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Jan 10, 2006
Budget $1,500,000
Running Time
1 hour, 40 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Young Mr. Lincoln
• Der Junge Mr. Lincoln (1972)
• Alba di gloria (1939)
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Genre: Drama, Biography, Courtroom, Law, Murder, Love, Political, Society
Tagline: The story of Abraham Lincoln that has NEVER been told!
Plot: John Ford's film on the early career of Abraham Lincoln, which centers on an apocryphal murder trial, impressed even the great Sergei Eisenstein. It stars Henry Fonda as the title character, who opts for the law after receiving encouragement from his early, ill-fated love, Anne Rutledge (Pauline Moore). Too poor to own even a horse, he arrives in Springfield on a mule and soon establishes a law practice with friend John Stuart (Edwin Maxwell). At a July 4th celebration, a man is murdered in a brawl, and the accused are Matt and Adam Clay (Richard Cromwell and Eddie Quillan), two brothers of a family that Lincoln knows. After saving the two men from a lynch mob, Lincoln becomes their defending attorney, a difficult task since each man claims guilt to spare the other. Admiring his courage, Mary Todd (Marjorie Weaver) invites him to her sister's soiree and expresses an intense interest in his future. More pressing is his meeting with Abigail Clay (Alice Brady), who understandably refuses to tell Lincoln which of her sons is the killer. Although entirely fictional, Ford's fable conveys the essence of the great man's character: honesty, humor, wisdom, and a shrewdness that knew how to take a back road to reach the high road. A triumph of acting, writing, and direction, YOUNG MR.
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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| Written by |
Lamar Trotti
The Ox-Bow Incident, There's No Business Like Show Business, The Razor's Edge |
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| Cast |
Henry Fonda
12 Angry Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Longest Day |
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My Man Godfrey, The Gay Divorcee, Gold Diggers of 1935 | | | Eddie Collins
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Drums Along the Mohawk, The Return of Frank James | | | |
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| Music By |
Alfred Newman
All About Eve, The Seven Year Itch, Foreign Correspondent |
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