Director: John Ford

Writer: Lamar Trotti

Music: Alfred Newman

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Keywords: Drama, Biography, POTUS

Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln starts out as a country lawyer, here defending two brothers wrongly accused of murder. Fictionalized account. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story. Entered 2003 into the National Film Registry. A later film, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), portrays a more melancholy Lincoln.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Ward Bond	Actor	9-Apr-1903	5-Nov-1960	Wagon Train
Alice Brady	Actor	2-Nov-1892	28-Oct-1939	In Old Chicago
Spencer Charters	Actor	25-Mar-1875	25-Jan-1943	Character actor
Richard Cromwell	Actor	8-Jan-1920	11-Oct-1960	The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Henry Fonda	Actor	16-May-1905	12-Aug-1982	12 Angry Men
Donald Meek	Actor	14-Jul-1878	18-Nov-1946	Scottish-American character actor
Pauline Moore	Actor	14-Jun-1914	7-Dec-2001	American character actress
Eddie Quillan	Actor	31-Mar-1907	19-Jul-1990	In 20 short films by Mack Sennett
Arleen Whelan	Actor	1-Sep-1914	7-Apr-1993	Castle in the Desert

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