Abraham Lincoln Page #4

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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I doubt if there's a word in the

dictionary that could tell how I feel!

Billie, what does a man do

if his head's all right

but his legs are cowardly?

My cure is to get drunk.

My legs are too frightened

to pay any attentin to liquor.

I'll go ahead and

tell them that you're coming.

Anne!

Anne!

Anne!

We looked, everywhere,

tort we can't find him.

No, can't find him...

not at the office.

What on earth happened to him?

He was in a terrible

state when I left him.

He was so frightened and upset.

I imagine he just ran away.

Ran away... from me!

On our weddin' day!

Now sistern dear...

Don't 'sister' me!

Can you imagine! That's what a Todd gets

for engagin' herself to a country baboon!

- Listen, dear, you mustn't...

- You may as well all go home!

You hear me?

You may as well all go home!

Not goin' to be any weddin' here.

You can all go home

as far as I'm concerned!

But this is so distressing!

You certainly are a matchmaker

to reconcile those two after

what happened two years ago.

We all like Mr. Lincoln,

and Mary is just

the girl to push him along.

Oh, Mary, how sweet you look!

What a lovely dress!

Yes, and so becoming to her too.

Maybe that's Mr. Lincoln now.

Julia it all seems so strange

having things end this way.

It's just as it should end. You and

Mr. Lincoln will make a great man.

Good morning, Mr. Lincoln.

Good morning.

Come, my dear

we'll leave the happy pair alone.

Good morning, Mary.

I,... I...

Mary, you don't have

to bother about me any more.

I think I've settled down at last.

I hope I can make

your future all you desire.

We'll say no more about it, Mr. Lincoln.

I really think, after all, you need me.

You'll need a lot of patience

to put up with me, Mary,

but if anyone can do it,

I'm sure you're the one.

Oh, Mary!

Douglas is a prize speaker,

but just wait till old Abe

gets ahold of him on slavery!

You're crazy!

Lincoln has no more chance of beating

Douglas for Senate than I have.

He only went to school for three months.

There must be no issue of slavery.

We must face the facts.

I'll run Mr. Lincoln out of this campaign.

I will not throw mud.

Let each State mind its own business

and this Republic can exist forever...

divided into free and slave states.

We will not allow

the extensin of slavery to any State.

We will not allow

the secessin of any State.

Above all and before all,

the Unin must be preserved.

A house divided

against itself must fall!

- Douglas elected!-

- Hurrah for Douglas!-

- Douglas elected!-

- Hurrah for Douglas!-

- Douglas elected!-

- Hurrah for Douglas!-

Mary...

I'm home, Mary.

You must be tired, Mr, Lincoln.

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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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