Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

John Cromwell

Escritores:

Robert E. Sherwood (play)
Grover Jones (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

12 febrero 1940 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Historia

Plot:

Covers the period from Lincoln's early years as a Kentucky woodsman until his election to the Presidency in 1860...

Plot Keywords:

Woodsman | 1860s | Illinois | Territory Name In Title | Political Campaign

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Real Mr. Lincoln

Reparto

Raymond Massey	...	Abraham Lincoln
Gene Lockhart	...	Stephen Douglas
Ruth Gordon	...	Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Howard	...	Ann Rutledge
Minor Watson	...	Joshua Speed
Harvey Stephens	...	Ninian Edwards
Alan Baxter	...	Billy Herndon
Howard Da Silva	...	Jack Armstrong (as Howard da Silva)
Dorothy Tree	...	Elizabeth Edwards
Aldrich Bowker	...	Judge Bowling Green
Maurice Murphy	...	John McNeil
Louis Jean Heydt	...	Mentor Graham
Clem Bevans	...	Ben Mattingly
Harlan Briggs	...	Denton Offut
Herbert Rudley	...	Seth Gale

También conocida como:

Spirit of the People (UK)
Lincoln en Illinois (Spain) [es]

Duración:

110 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Victor System)

Clasificación:

Finland:S | Spain:7 | USA:Approved (PCA #5619) | Sweden:Btl

Locaciones de Filmación:

Eugene, Oregon, USA

Compañía:

Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Raymond Massey and Howard Da Silva repeat their roles from the original Broadway production in this film.

Errores:

Errores Reales: Lincoln's House Divided Against Itself speech occurred when he accepted the Illinois Republican Party's nomination for U.S. Senator and not at any of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.

Citas:

Mentor Graham: Well, Abe, there are always two occupations open to those who have failed at everything else: school teaching and politics.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Zelda, Get Off My Back (#2.17)" (1961)

Banda de Sonido:

Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness

The Real Mr. Lincoln

With all due respect to Henry Fonda, Walter Huston, and a myriad of other cinematic Lincolns, Raymond Massey is the Abe to end all Abes. His moving and mesmerizing performance gives us the real Mr. Lincoln in all his complexity. Alongside the warmth, compassion and humor for which we love and revere Mr. Lincoln, we see in Massey the dark side as well: the doubts, fears, indecision and deep melancholia with which Abraham Lincoln struggled his whole life, and which clashed with his fierce ambition. Ruth Gordon is superb as Lincoln's equally ambitious wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. No hagiography, this movie lets us see the Lincolns as human beings with real "issues", rather than mere heroes of history.

Besides all this, we have Massey's astonishing physical resemblance to Lincoln.

What's most amazing is that the spirit of this most quintessentially American of our American heroes should be so wonderfully captured and portrayed by.... a Canadian!