Fresh
Abraham Lincoln is a startlingly superlative accomplishment.
Variety Staff, Variety
Abraham Lincoln
The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!
1930 · 1h 36m · APPROVED
Drama, History
Directed by
D.W. Griffith
Overview
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Director and cast
- D.W. Griffith Director
- Walter Huston as Abraham Lincoln
- Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge
- William L. Thorne as Tom Lincoln
- Lucille La Verne as Mid-Wife
- Helen Freeman as Nancy Hanks Lincoln
- Otto Hoffman as Offut
- Edgar Dearing as Armstrong
- Russell Simpson as Lincoln's Employer
- Charles Crockett as Sheriff
- Kay Hammond as Mary Todd Lincoln
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
It is quite a worthy pictorial offering with a genuinely fine and inspiring performance by Walter Huston in the role of the martyred President.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
D. W. Griffith's first sound film, from 1930, is as ungainly and majestic as its subject.
Richard Brody, New Yorker
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