Young Mr Lincoln
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1939
Duration:
101 mins
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Cast:
Francis Ford, Milburn Stone, Eddie Quillan, Donald Meek, Ward Bond, Richard Cromwell, Arleen Whelan, Marjorie Weaver, Alice Brady, Henry Fonda, Pauline Moore
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