Abraham Lincoln (Blu-ray)
The wonder film of the century, about the most romantic figure who ever lived!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 13, 2012
- Originally Released: 1930
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Huston, Una Merkel & Ian Keith | |
Performer: | Edgar Dearing, Hobart Bosworth, Henry B. Walthall, Lucille La Verne, E. Alyn Warren, Cameron Prud'homme, Oscar Apfel, Frank Campeau & Jason Robards, Sr. | |
Featured: | Russell Simpson | |
Directed by | D.W. Griffith | |
Edited by | James Smith | |
Screenwriting by | Stephen Vincent Benet | |
Composition by | Hugo Reisenfeld | |
Story by | John W. Considine Jr. | |
Produced by | D.W. Griffith | |
Director of Photography: | Karl Struss |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Recommended solely for Walter Huston's performance.
Film Threat
Abraham Lincoln is a startlingly superlative accomplishment.
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Variety
Working with the sort of mythic material later associated with John Ford, Griffith gives us a primordial Lincoln, perfectly incarnated by Walter Huston, and a dreamlike sense of destiny that his camera fully articulates.
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Chicago Reader
It feels mostly like an antique, but even antiques have their own particular beauties.
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Combustible Celluloid
Sympathetic, sophisticated and, for those with a keen eye, echoed in the work of Hitchcock and Welles.
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Film4
D. W. Griffith's first sound film, from 1930, is as ungainly and majestic as its subject.
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New Yorker
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Feels like a relic, a sad, weak swan song from one of cinema's most legendary filmmakers.
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From the Front Row
Product Description:
Silent film master D.W. Griffith's first talkie works as a companion piece to his classic BIRTH OF A NATION, providing a detailed biographical sketch of the 16th president. We see his birth in a log cabin, the tragic death of his first love, Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), his debates with Douglas, his accepting of the presidency, the terrible toll of the Civil War, and finally the tragic assassination at Ford's Theater. Griffith shows his usual meticulous attention to period detail, and the framing of the various vignettes has the feel of historical photographs come to life. Walter Huston is excellent in the title role, with a portrayal that subtly evolves from laconic, wizened rascal to noble elder statesman. This is a fascinating, worthy film, and an interesting historical document in and of itself.
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- Sales Rank: 56,490
- UPC: 738329109424
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