Henry Fonda plays the contemplative and spontaneously clever Lincoln to a tee, one of his best roles. He shows traits that made him famous during his role as the President of the United States. This amazingly wrongheaded analysis simply proves that great historians are rarely fine film critics. The film eventually centers itself on a court case where the inexperienced Lincoln must defend two young farmers accused of murder. Although it is true that the real Lincoln had received almost no formal education, he was an ambitious man and did not need encouragement to start a legal career. 3 out of 3 found this helpful. This is Lincoln, the symbol of justice and mercy, Lincoln, the man of the wilderness, striving to found a civilization within himself, and to become the "remarkable lawgiver' of young America. This was John Ford's entertaining if typically highly fanciful and sentimentalised dramatisation of the fledgling years of America's greatest president. Cousin Vinnie? Was this review helpful? Young Mr. Lincoln comes out that culminating year of the first phase of Ford's cinematic authorship, 1939.In that greatest of Hollywood years, Ford directed three superb, still not fully appreciated films: Drums Along the Mohawk, Stagecoach,and Young Mr.Lincoln. Was this review helpful? I am working on a doctoral dissertation on Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. In fact, racism was widespread in the north, and blacks were not welcome in many communities.The story is based on Lincoln’s defence of the son of his old friend Jack Armstrong, who was accused of murdering a man in a brawl. Thus, his attempt to discredit a witness by changing his name from John Cass to Jackass would seem out of character, if eliciting a raucous laugh from the courtroom and theater audience. Despite the myth, Lincoln would have died rather than enter a rail-splitting contest once he had become a lawyer, but it is cool to watch how it is done.Furthermore, the real Lincoln was already relatively successful when he started courting society belle Mary Todd. Young Mr. Lincoln comes out that culminating year of the first phase of Ford's cinematic authorship, 1939.In that greatest of Hollywood years, Ford directed three superb, still not fully appreciated films: Drums Along the Mohawk, Stagecoach,and Young Mr.Lincoln. What are the Psychic and social costs of American manifest destiny, as America strives to build a new human city in the wilderness?Lincoln symbolizes Americas journey, as he seeks to reconcile the civilizational inmpulse (law), with the freedom of the wilderness.Young Mr.Lincoln is not history, ( It is full of historical "howlers'-as both Ford and Trotti were well aware), but myth. What Lincoln does with that fellow's name during a cross examination is hilarious.
Young Mr. Lincoln is not history-like James Agee's long forgotten teleplay about Lincoln, and like Sandburgs biography, it is an epic poem...a very beautiful epic poem. It might seem odd to say that Stagecoach is not fully appreciated, all but the most purblind of critics must perceive that it is one of of the greatest Westerns, and perhaps even one of the hundred greatest films of all time. Was this review helpful? Young Mr. Lincoln is an excellent, if hagiographic, biography with a great performance by Henry Fonda in the title role. "Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)" deserves far more attention than it often receives today. 2 out of 2 found this helpful. This is an evocative and idealized portrait of the early life of Lincoln(born 1809 Hodgensville-Kentucky- and died in Washington 1865). Just click on any of the following links: 1939 is universally accepted as the greatest year in Hollywood history, with more classic films released than in any other, and John Ford directed three of the best, "Stagecoach", "Drums Along the Mohawk", and this beautiful homage to frontier days and a young backwoods lawyer destined to eventually save the Union, "Young Mr. Lincoln". 14 out of 17 found this helpful. 2 out of 2 found this helpful. Drums Along the Mohawk is the Revolutionary War. I mean come on, "I'll just call you Jackass then"???? Why does this movie get so little attention? Imagintion? 35 out of 38 found this helpful.

Along the way, there are omens of the future dropped in from time to time. He directed "Stagecoach," "Drums Along the Mohawk," and this excellent movie. Young Mr. Lincoln marks the first film of the director/star collaboration of John Ford and Henry Fonda. He cheats in sports, talks like a real sweet simpleton and does not seem to know were to sit in a courtroom. The supporting cast includes many of Ford's regulars. 32 out of 36 found this helpful. The film may conflate history for entertainment purposes (it is, after all, a Hollywood production), but it is not as unhistorical as many believe. 10 out of 11 found this helpful. Following the unexpected death of his first love, Ann Rutledge, he moves to Springfield to open a law firm. 10 out of 11 found this helpful. 3 out of 3 found this helpful.

Although Lincoln was known for generally being easy going and careless in his personal appearance, I doubt if he lounged with his feet up on a table while cross examining a witness! The central storyline is loosely based upon an actual court case conducted by Abraham Lincoln early in the course of his legal career. As usual, the rest of John Ford's "Stock Company" of players are all featured. I don't think the decision of making a movie about the most admired and beloved President of the United States during the rise of fascism and totalitarian regimes, on the year of 1939, was fortuitous.

And he never let the idea of a good story get in the way of the truth about the real events that some of his films are based on. Ford's camera has only praising views to reveal of Mr. Lincoln's early life.

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