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1930
Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem John Brown's Body (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the…
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Few filmmakers have made such an important contribution to shaping cinema as art as David W. Griffith did. Despite his importance as a pioneer and influence on future film-makers, Griffith actually had relatively short career by Hollywood standards. Already in 1920s he struggled to reconcile his Victorian morality with more hedonistic social mores of the Jazz Age and he fared even worse with the advent of sound cine…More
