Director: John Ford. She faithfully attends the trial of the Clay boys, sits in the front row, and listens closely. It is referred to as the "Almanac Trial" on Armstrong's grave,[4] and Lincoln proved the witness against the accused was lying about being able to see by the light of the moon, using an almanac. In fact, racism was widespread in the north, and blacks were not welcome in many communities. Lincoln does single-handedly prevent two white men from being lynched, but issues of race and slavery never arise. A. O. Scott’s Times review from July 2017 declares that “the film’s struggle against simplification — against the sentimentality, wishful thinking and outright denial that defines most Hollywood considerations of America’s racial past — is palpable, almost heroic, even if it is not always successful.” Available on Blu-ray, DVD and Amazon Video. Although Milburn Stone is too tall and too dandified to be Stephen Douglas, the “Little Giant,” Donald Meek is excellent as the prosecutor, a butt of Lincoln’s jokes until he turns nasty and tries to intimidate the suspects’ mother when she is on the witness stand. (The climactic trial is loosely based on the Duff Armstrong case in which Lincoln, then a defense attorney, made strategic use of an almanac to discredit a witness.) When a local deputy is killed during a fight with a couple of strangers, the two men are accused of murder. Some years later, the French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma subjected “Young Mr. Lincoln” to an extensive semiotic cum ideological analysis. I recall years ago Fonda telling that as a young actor he was understandably nervous about playing Abraham Lincoln and scared he wouldn't live up to the challenge. Operating a store in New Salem, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda) is running for state legislature in 1832. Despite his humble manner, Lincoln proves to be a sharp cross-examiner, but the case seems bound for failure since the prosecution has produced an eye-witness to the murder.
A different Lincoln is invoked as an honest prairie reformer in “The Washington Masquerade,” a 1932 MGM political melodrama (newly available from Warner Archive), in which Jeff Keane (Lionel Barrymore), a novice politician running a good-government campaign for the Senate is ballyhooed as “the new Abraham Lincoln.”, Keane is elected on a progressive platform to establish federal stewardship of the nation’s natural resources. Following the unexpected death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, he moves to Springfield to open a law firm. More interested in legends than facts, director John Ford made sure that Henry Fonda’s portrayal matched the essence of the real man, but was not afraid to stretch the truth in order to make an enjoyable story. While Lincoln would become the center of any circle of men, whether well-educated lawyers or rough-edged laborers, he was genuinely tongued-tied around women. Too poor to own even a horse, he arrives in Springfield, Illinois, on a mule and soon establishes a law practice in 1837 with his friend John Stuart (Edwin Maxwell). However, Lincoln persists and is able, by using an almanac, to demonstrate that on the night in question, the moon had set before the time of death. Lincoln’s future bride, Mary Todd, and eventual political rival, Stephen Douglas, are both on hand and Ford shot a scene, cut from the movie by the producer Darryl F. Zanuck, in which the presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth passes through Springfield. Convinced that he intended to destroy their way of life, the southern states seceded, starting a long and bitter civil war (1861-1865). From left, Judith Dickens, Alice Brady, Arleen Whelan and Henry Fonda as the future president in John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln,” now out on Blu-ray. [1][2] Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted takes for fear the studio would use them in the film. In 1832, a family traveling through New Salem, Illinois in its wagon need groceries from Lincoln's (Henry Fonda) store, and the only thing of value that they have to trade is a barrel of old books including a law book, Blackstone's Commentaries. An irrepressible ham, Barrymore was born to play the bushwa-spouting politician. (Criterion Collection), T-MEN A pair of treasury agents take on a murderous counterfeiting ring in Anthony Mann’s tough, terse documentary-style procedural. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti Still, “Young Mr. Lincoln” had its defenders. An ambitious man, he was elected repeatedly to the Illinois state legislature, where he became a leader of the Whig party. Ford basically wanted to show how a simple country lawyer would become the preserver of the Union and the Great Emancipator, so the film ends with a shot of Fonda that dissolves to the statue in the Lincoln Memorial. The story is based on Lincoln’s defence of the son of his old friend Jack Armstrong, who was accused of murdering a man in a brawl. It can hardly be coincidental that — wearing his trademark stovepipe hat — the nation’s destined savior, Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda, given a prosthetic nose), arrives in the rowdy western town of Springfield, Ill., like Jesus, riding on a mule. Armstrong was acquitted. The flash-forward to the Lincoln Memorial was prescient.
In 2003, Young Mr. Lincoln was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The essay, which was required reading in the cinema studies classes of the 1970s, argued that the movie was designed to inscribe the Lincoln of legend into the world of 1939, cast as the progressive forebear of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Young Mr. Lincoln marks the first film of the director/star collaboration of John Ford and Henry Fonda. Ford’s youthful Lincoln is already a monument. Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted takes for fear the studio would use them in the film.
French Intervention in Mexico (1861-1867), Manifest Destiny-American Age of Expansion (1815-1860), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Lincoln did win the case by quoting the almanac to prove that the witness could not have seen the killing by the moonlight. He then drives Cass to confess that he had actually stabbed his friend. To that end, “Young Mr. Lincoln” practices a selective form of predestination. THE APARTMENT Billy Wilder’s 1960 comedy, in which Jack Lemmon plays a salaryman who lends his home to his superiors for trysts with, among others, Shirley MacLaine, gets the deluxe treatment in this 4K digital restoration that comes complete with hardcover notes. As modest as it seems, “Young Mr. Lincoln” was generally overlooked when it was released during a year that also brought “Gone With the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Wuthering Heights,” “Ninotchka,” “Mr.
Fonda’s performance made it “a moving unity, at once gentle and quizzically comic,” wrote the New York Times critic Frank Nugent (later to collaborate with Ford), declaring the film one “which indisputably has the right be to called Americana.” In an essay included in Criterion’s notes, the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein praised the movie’s “national spirit” and “genuine beauty,” calling it the American film he most wished he had made. Both salty and sentimental, “Young Mr. Lincoln” establishes its subject as a folk hero. This article is about the 1939 film. Reviewing the movie in The Times on its belated premiere in September 2017, Ben Kenigsberg wrote that, even in his first film, Mr. Ripstein “already showed a flair for dynamic staging and long takes.” Blu-ray and DVD (Film Movement), Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda). A former journalist, screenwriter Lamar Trotti filled the trial scenes with details from a trial that he had reported on. Although he lost a hard-fought campaign against Democrat candidate Stephen Douglas for a senate seat in 1858, a series of debates between the two men had attracted national attention, especially among the growing abolitionist movement. Meanwhile, society belle Mary Todd (Marjorie Weaver) is clearly attracted to him, even though he is too shy to openly court her, and her relatives prefer rival suitor Stephen Douglas (Milburn Stone). Barrymore is equally convincing when succumbing to the wiles of an assured and charming femme fatale (Karen Morley). The film has as its basis the murder case against William "Duff" Armstrong, which took place in 1858 at the courthouse in Beardstown, Illinois, the only courthouse in which Lincoln practiced law that is still in use.
The accused are two brothers, Matt and Adam Clay (Richard Cromwell and Eddie Quillan). Just click on any of the following links: How has Hollywood treated Abraham Lincoln? (20th Century Fox), ELECTION A hilariously annoying go-getter (Reese Witherspoon) runs for class president, driving her irate teacher (Matthew Broderick) to undermine her campaign in Alexander Payne’s 1999 satire of politics and political dirty tricks. Not unlike the political humorist Will Rogers, who appeared in three films for Ford, Fonda’s homespun Lincoln uses reason and humor — as well as knowledge of Scripture — to make his case. Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck He also persuades by asserting his physical strength and even employs sleight of hand, cheating to win a Fourth of July tug of war. However, the actual trial took place in 1858, more than twenty years after the period depicted in the movie, when he was a far more experienced lawyer.
Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 American biographical drama film about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. However, the key witness to the crime, J. Palmer Cass (Ward Bond), is a friend of the victim who claims to have seen the murder at a distance of about 100 yards under the light of the moon: "It was moon bright." Fonda, a 20th Century Fox contract player known mainly for portraying juveniles, evidently hesitated to take the role. However, the key role is obviously Lincoln, and Fonda gives an impressive version of Lincoln, well, a young Lincoln. It’s “a gleeful, tender and even sentimental film,” the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther wrote in his review. At one point, Lincoln explains that he is helping the two young men accused of murder because their family reminds him of his family, and the script does correctly describe his relatives, but the real man rarely talked about them, as if he preferred to forget the experience. Reviewing the movie in 1948, Mr. Crowther took note of the style: “Anthony Mann has directed the action, of which there is more than enough, with a fine sense of melodramatic timing and a good eye for sharp, severe effects.” Blu-ray and DVD. There the future president is introduced as a gentle force of nature, rehearsing a political speech for a group of giggling kids, studying his law books beneath a tree and shyly courting Ann Rutledge (Pauline Moore, later to play opposite Roy Rogers in Republic Pictures B-westerns). Twentieth Century Fox, 1939, 100 minutes
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