Abraham Lincoln

1930

Action / Biography / Drama / History / War

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 75% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 38% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 1695 1.7K

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Plot summary

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.


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Jason Robards Sr. as Herndon
Walter Huston as Abraham Lincoln
Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge
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754.41 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Reviewed by AlsExGal 6 / 10

Cliff-Notes biopic of the 16th President...

... "personally directed" by D. W. Griffith. Walter Huston stars as Lincoln, shown from his birth through his rough-and-tumble early years, his doomed romance with Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), his marriage to the eccentric Mary Todd (Kay Hammond), and his election to the presidency, where he presided over the U. S. Civil War, during which he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves, before being felled by an assassin's bullet.

Like most of Griffith's movies, this is a mixed bag of interesting choices, corny populism, and a rose-colored vision of the past. I was surprised by the opening of the film, set aboard a trans-Atlantic slave ship, featuring slave traders coldly discussing their remaining "inventory" as they toss a dead African overboard. As this was one of a few scenes missing its audio, I have a feeling it was often cut out during exhibition.

I was confused by Griffith's decision to cast E. Alyn Warren as both Stephen Douglas and Ulysses Grant: were there not enough qualified actors around? I liked seeing silent film stalwarts Hobart Bosworth and Henry B. Walthall as General Robert E. Lee and his attendant colonel, respectively. I liked Walter Huston as Honest Abe, and was surprised by how much he looked like the photographs of Lincoln in the last third of the film.

The biopic elements themselves are simplistic and hagiographic, and things seemed rushed, trying to tell his entire life story in 90 minutes. I was not a fan of Hammond as Mary Todd, and felt she dragged the proceedings down quite a bit.

Reviewed by MartinHafer 1 / 10

As bio-pics go, this one totally stinks

This is the 26th movie I have seen from Harry Medved's book "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time" and I've gotta say that I agree with Medved's choice. While many of his "fifty worst" weren't THAT bad (a few were even pretty good), this one is probably the worst bio-pic I have ever seen. Now this doesn't mean that it's among the 50 worst films EVER made, however--just the worst bio-pic. You just can't get much worse than this one in fact.

My biggest complaint isn't about how tediously slow the movie is or how horrible the dialog is. While these aspects did totally suck, they weren't the worst part of the film. The main problem is that so much of the film is just factually wrong, so on top of being boring and dumb, it isn't even correct!! Trust me on this one, I am an American History teacher and can assure you that this film appears as if they really didn't do any research--especially since the film repeats such obvious lies. Like George Washington before him (with his supposed wooden teeth and need to chop down cherry trees), after Lincoln's death lots of people pretty much made up the facts to make Lincoln seem bigger than life. Lots of great little homespun stories were created out of thin air--and Griffith totally made up many facts. The most obvious one is the supposed love affair between Lincoln and Ann Rutlage--this simply didn't happen. Other stupidly written and patently false portions of the film would include much of the Lincoln-Douglas segment of the film (especially the time-line for it), Lincoln loudly announcing that he'd found the perfect man to lead his troops (though Grant was about the 8th or 9th "perfect man" that Lincoln appointed to this position), etc., etc., etc.. Additionally, the film wasn't really told in a smooth narrative but seemed like overly-staged scenes from his life--often not in the right order or else done in such histrionic and melodramatic fashion that I laughed out loud. I loved the birth scene--John the Baptist and St. Francis must have had less auspicious and saintly births!! Heck, in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, the birth was done with less melodrama!! The overall film really looks like an 1870s traveling company who did tent show, not a professionally made movie. Amateurish, silly and ridiculously nationalistic--it is meant to please dumb yokels, but not anyone with even a passing knowledge of history.

Bad, dumb and totally uninspiring--this is one bad film disguised as something significant or patriotic. If you are interested in TRUE patriotism, read a biography of this man. The real Lincoln was a lot less "homespun" and much more a brilliant and occasionally very pragmatic politician--and THAT would make for a far more interesting film! By the way, one of the only things the film got pretty well was Mary Todd Lincoln. She really was a fussy woman who was almost impossible to get along with according to almost every description. Her life, though tragic, was also really interesting and could stand a GOOD bio-pic itself--giving more attention to her life before and after Abraham's death.

I fully expect to get some hate mails and "not helpfuls" for this review. I have had to the nerve to criticize D.W. Griffith (a very important but very, very flawed film maker) and some knuckleheads might see this review as unpatriotic. The way I see it, lying about a nation's past like this film did is unpatriotic--plus the truth is far more interesting and compelling. Lincoln was a great president and a role model--not some sappy backwoods idiot who wears lipstick like he seems to be in this syrupy mess. And, yes, I did mean that he wore lipstick--the makeup was THAT bad.

4/6/08 UPDATE: AN IMPORTANT NOTE--Please ignore the number of negatives posted for this film, as I have been "spammed". Although it's an old and obscure film, within a day or two I'd gotten slammed with five "Not Helpfuls". Obviously, my review hacked someone off enough that they are using proxy accounts to criticize my review. Normally with a movie this old and obscure, you MIGHT get one or two comments a year yet I got five in one or two days! Gimme a break!!

Reviewed by bkoganbing 6 / 10

"The Most Romantic Figure Who Ever Lived????"

Before writing this review I saw that publicity driven line about this film. Abraham Lincoln is a lot of things, but NOBODY ever accused him of being a great romantic. All I can say there is, Huh?

Abraham Lincoln is one of two sound films made by movie pioneer, David W. Griffith. It's also something of an atonement for Griffith who was accused fostering racism with his masterpiece silent work, The Birth of a Nation.

Maybe if Abraham Lincoln had been a better film it would have succeeded in being an atonement. It certainly had one of the best interpreters of Lincoln ever in Walter Huston. The film also in many ways looks like a newsreel of the Civil War era. Our image of that era and you can see it in Ken Burns documentary comes from Matthew Brady's still photographs. In crafting this and The Birth of a Nation, Griffith was heavily influenced by Brady's still photographs.

Lincoln's prarie years were better told in Abe Lincoln in Illinois and Young Mr. Lincoln. Griffith should have stuck to the war years and made it in fact the Lincoln family story. One thing that would have done is eliminated Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge. Una Merkel had many a good role as a wisecracking dame in modern films. But in Abraham Lincoln she's just awful as Lincoln's lost love Ann Rutledge. It's a miracle she had a career after this film and a good one.

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