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Abraham Lincoln is a american film of genre Drama directed by D. W. Griffith released in USA on 8 november 1930 with Walter Huston

Abraham Lincoln (1930)

D. W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln
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Released in USA 8 november 1930
Length 1h37
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating56% 2.80082.80082.80082.80082.8008

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 Pre-Code biographical film about American president Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. Her first speaking role was in a short film, Love's Old Sweet Song (1923) filmed in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem John Brown's Body. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith.

Synopsis

The first act of the film covers Lincoln's early life as a storekeeper and rail-splitter in New Salem and his early romance with Ann Rutledge, and his early years as a lawyer and his courtship and marriage to Mary Todd in Springfield. The majority of the film deals with Lincoln's presidency during the American Civil War and culminates with Lee's surrender and Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre.

Actors

Walter Huston

(Abraham Lincoln)Una Merkel

(Ann Rutledge)William L. Thorne

(Tom Lincoln)Kay Hammond

(Mary Todd Lincoln)Lucille La Verne

(Mid-Wife)
And :
Otto Hoffman
Helen Freeman
Edgar Dearing
Kay Hammond
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