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Young Mr Lincoln (1939)
Director: John Ford
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This first product of the Ford-Fonda partnership - reputedly a favourite not only of Ford but of Eisenstein too - today commands classic status. Composed of serio-comic scenes from small town life, heavy with a future perfect sense of Myth-in-the-making, it's riven by tensions between insignificance and monumentality (Fonda: 'For me it was like playing Jesus Christ') that explode in the histrionic splendour and 'excess' of the celebrated final sequence: Abe Lincoln setting out to scale unseen heights against the portentous gloom of a gathering storm.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: John Ford
Producer: Kenneth MacGowan
Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Richard Cromwell, Ward Bond, Donald Meek, Eddie Quillan, Milburn Stone, Francis Ford, Pauline Moore full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 101 mins
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