Henry Fonda first balked at playing Abraham Lincoln. Later, he humorously recalled director John Ford reassuring him: Fonda needn’t feel intimidated; he’d be playing the great man before he became ...

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Who is the most famous or beloved president of all time? Judging by Hollywood’s Golden Era, I would wager that Abraham Lincoln was the most revered former president in the 1930s–50s. Countless movies ...

John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln,” released in 1939 and now on Blu-ray in a new 4K digital restoration from Criterion, is a prime example of American mythmaking. It can hardly be coincidental that — ...

Abe Lincoln I may not know much of law Mr. Felder, but I know what's right and what's wrong. And I know what you're asking is wrong.

A flop in its day, Young Mr. Lincoln now seems the richest film of John Ford’s New Deal period. Given its tragic sense of life, it’s also his most intriguing meditation on history before The Man Who ...