YOUNG MR. LINCOLN

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• Release Year: 1939
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be, a novice lawyer struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.
• Cast: Henry Fonda, Alice Brady, Marjorie Weaver, Arleen Whelan, Eddie Collins, Pauline Moore, Richard Cromwell, Donald Meek, Judith Dickens, Eddie Quillan, Spencer Charters, Ward Bond, Tiny Jones, Eddy Waller, Clarence Wilson, Ernie Adams, Sam Ash, Arthur Aylesworth, Dorris Bowdon, Virginia Brissac, Paul E. Burns, George Chandler, Cliff Clark, Frank Dae, Francis Ford, Harold Goodwin, Charles Halton, Herbert Heywood, Robert Homans, Dickie Jones, Jack Kelly, Fred Kohler Jr., Kay Linaker, Robert Lowery, Jim Mason, Louis Mason, Edwin Maxwell, Sylvia McClure, Ivor McFadden, Tom McGuire, Robert Milasch, Dave Morris, Frank Orth, Jack Pennick, Steven Randall, Robert Shaw, Russell Simpson, Milburn Stone, Charles Tannen, Harry Tyler, Dorothy Vaughan, Billy Watson, Delmar Watson, John Ford, Lamar Trotti
• Director: John Ford
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie