Young Mr. Lincoln
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.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride (Searching for John Ford: A Life)
- Omnibus: “John Ford,” part one: filmmaker Lindsay Anderson’s profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II
- Talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975
- Audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the director’s grandson Dan Ford
- Academy Award radio dramatization of the film
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride (Searching for John Ford: A Life)
- Omnibus: “John Ford,” part one: filmmaker Lindsay Anderson’s profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II
- Talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975
- Audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the director’s grandson Dan Ford
- Academy Award radio dramatization of the film
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
- Henry Fonda
- Abraham Lincoln
- Alice Brady
- Abigail Clay
- Marjorie Weaver
- Mary Todd
- Arleen Whelan
- Sarah Clay
- Eddie Collins
- Efe Tyler
- Pauline Moore
- Ann Rutledge
- Richard Cromwell
- Matt Clay
- Donald Meek
- John Felder
- Dorris Bowdon
- Carrie Sue
- Eddie Quillan
- Adam Clay
- Spencer Charters
- Judge Herbert A. Bell
- Ward Bond
- J. Palmer Cass
- Milburn Stone
- Stephen A. Douglas
- Cliff Clark
- Sheriff Billings
- Steven Randall
- Juror
- Charles Tannen
- Ninian Edwards
- Francis Ford
- Sam Boone
- Fred Kohler Jr.
- Scrub White
- Kay Linaker
- Mrs. Edwards
Credits
- Director
- John Ford
- Producer
- Darryl F. Zanuck
- Associate producer
- Kenneth Macgowan
- Original screenplay by
- Lamar Trotti
- Photography
- Bert Glennon
- Photography
- Arthur Miller
- Art direction
- Richard Day
- Set decorations
- Thomas Little
- Film editor
- Walter Thompson
- Costumes
- Royer
- Sound
- Eugene Grossman
- Sound
- Roger Heman
- Music by
- Alfred Newman
- Musical direction
- Louis Silvers
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