Abraham Lincoln

Brief vignettes about Lincoln s early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination. Written by Rod Crawford Abraham Lincoln is a 1930 American English-language Biography Drama motion picture featuring Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman, Otto Hoffman and Kathrin Clare Ward. United Artists was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) D. W. Griffith and Joseph M. Schenck. Abraham Lincoln is written by Stephen Vincent Benet, John W. Considine, Jr., Gerrit Lloyd and D. W. Griffith and it is directed by D. W. Griffith. United Artists acquired the distribution rights for the motion picture. Abraham Lincoln was released on 27th September 1930 and takes a screen time of 97 minutes. Cinematography was done by Karl Struss and editing by James Smith. The music was composed by Hugo Riesenfeld.
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