Abraham Lincoln
A fabulously-produced and well-acted classic story of the 16th President's rise to prominence.
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DVD-R Details
- From The Samuel M. Sherman Archives
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Alpha Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Huston, Una Merkel & Ian Keith | |
Performer: | Edgar Dearing, Hobart Bosworth, Henry B. Walthall, Lucille La Verne, E. Alyn Warren, Cameron Prud'homme, Oscar Apfel, Frank Campeau & Jason Robards, Sr. | |
Featured: | Russell Simpson | |
Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
Edited by | James Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Stephen Vincent Benet | |
Composition by | Hugo Reisenfeld | |
Story by | John W. Considine Jr. | |
Produced by | D.W. Griffith | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Struss |
Entertainment Reviews:
Abraham Lincoln is a startlingly superlative accomplishment.
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Variety
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Feels like a relic, a sad, weak swan song from one of cinema's most legendary filmmakers.
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From the Front Row
Sympathetic, sophisticated and, for those with a keen eye, echoed in the work of Hitchcock and Welles.
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Film4
Working with the sort of mythic material later associated with John Ford, Griffith gives us a primordial Lincoln, perfectly incarnated by Walter Huston, and a dreamlike sense of destiny that his camera fully articulates.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Brilliant flashes of direction permeate the entire film, and it remains distinctively a product of the great master.
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TV Guide
Rating: B- --
An archaic biopic.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
D. W. Griffith's first sound film, from 1930, is as ungainly and majestic as its subject.
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New Yorker
Description by OLDIES.com:
D.W. Griffith, "the man who invented Hollywood" directs the life of Abraham Lincoln in epic fashion with this lavish production which was selected as one of 1930's ten best films by the New York Times. Walter Huston turns in a towering performance as Lincoln, powerfully supported by a cast that includes Una Merkel, Jason Robards and Ian Keith as John Wilkes Booth. Famed author Stephen Vincent Benet wrote the screenplay, the only one ever attempting to encompass Lincoln's entire life. The work of master production designer William Cameron Menzies is evident throughout, particularly in touches such as the brilliant ending sequence. Abraham Lincoln is regarded by film critics as an important document of Hollywood's great transition to talkies, and master director Griffith's first sound production would prove to be a box office success.
Product Description:
Silent film master D.W. Griffith's first talkie works as a companion piece to his classic BIRTH OF A NATION, providing a detailed biographical sketch of the 16th president. We see his birth in a log cabin, the tragic death of his first love, Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), his debates with Douglas, his accepting of the presidency, the terrible toll of the Civil War, and finally the tragic assassination at Ford's Theater. Griffith shows his usual meticulous attention to period detail, and the framing of the various vignettes has the feel of historical photographs come to life. Walter Huston is excellent in the title role, with a portrayal that subtly evolves from laconic, wizened rascal to noble elder statesman. This is a fascinating, worthy film, and an interesting historical document in and of itself.
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