Abraham Lincoln (1930)

Note: this print runs 85 minutes against a recorded 97 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Frank Campeau, Helen Freeman, Helen Ware, Ian Keith, Jason Robards

Directed by D. W. Griffith

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem John Brown's Body (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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