Abraham Lincoln Page #2

Synopsis: 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 more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination.
Director(s): D.W. Griffith
Production: United Artists
 
IMDB:
5.8
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Year:
1930
96 min
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Oh, Abe, you'll do all

right when you get started.

There's something I'd like to start

right now if I thought I could finish it.

You know, Anne, I...

I've always done a lot of dreamin'

and lately it seems when I dream,

your face gets mixed up in it.

Does it really, Abe?

Tell me about the mixin'

I feel as though I'm going to be

seeing your face till the day I die.

'Course I know that would be pretty hard

for you to have to look at my face that long.

Everybody to their own opinin

Meaning?

I think...

it's the dearest, kindest,

most beautiful face in the whole worid!

Oh, Anne...

Anne...

I know

that's just flattery but I love it.

You know

I feel like little Jimmie Watkins,

he got a hunk of gingerbread

the other day and says:

"I guess there's nobody

likes ginger bread like I does and

gets so little of it".

Oh, Abe!

Anne, will you...

will you marry me?

I mean, of course when I...

when I...

get out of debt and can support you?

Well, you know, Abe,

I've intended to for a long while

that is, of course, if you asked me.

You... you mean?

Yes, Abe, you've got your gingerbread.

Oh, Anne!

Will you think of me and love me-

As you did once long ago?-

How is she, Doctor?

Pretty bad.

She's been asking for you, Abe.

I came as soon as I could.

I had the fever pretty bad myself.

I've got to tell you the truth, Abe,

It's hopeless...

perhaps by tomorrow...

no longer.

I'm so glad you came, Abe.

Are you all right now?

Now, don't bother about me, dear.

I'm all right now.

I know the truth, dear.

It's good-bye.

No, no, Anne dear,

you're not going to leave me!

I won't let you!

We must be brave, dear...

Don't take me away!

Don't take me away!

It's so dark and lonesome going!

Anne, you mustn't let go!

If they'd sing,

I wouldn't be so afraid.

In the sweet by and by,-

We shall meet on that beautiful shore. -

We will meet there, dear.

Oh... I love you so!

I love you so!

Feeling any better, Bowling?

No, not much.

I'll tell you, Doctor,

he's just like a sick child...

He was lost for five days

before we found him.

Yeh, I know.

We took his pocket-knife away from him,

we were so afeard something might happen.

Good gracious,

Abe, you're looking better!

No use trying to talk to him,

he just cain't answer.

If we could only think of something

that would just bring him back.

I guess time's the only thing.

Why should the spirit of mortal be proud,

like a swift-fleeting meteor,

fast-flying cloud?

Flash of the lightning,

break of the wave,

He passes from life

to his rest in the grave.

My goodness, Mary Todd, just think!

He'll be here in a few minutes

the catch of America!

Stephen A. Douglas!

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Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". more…

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