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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Abraham Lincoln is a 1930 biopic directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Walter Huston, based on the life of...well, you know.The film is basically a Cliff's Notes version of Lincoln's life, starting out with his birth in 1809 and attempting to cram his whole life story into 94 minutes. Highlights include Lincoln's doomed romance with Ann Rutledge, his courtship and marriage with a rather self-involved Mary Todd, and Lincoln's determination to save the Union. There's also a bit of unpleasantness at Ford's Theatre.Abraham Lincoln, Griffith's first talkie, got good reviews but didn't do very well at the box office, becoming yet another in Griffith's decade-long string of flops. Griffith directed only one more film before his career came to an end. It was one of Walter Huston's first starring roles; Huston would go on to a very successful career as a leading man. Huston's own rather reedy voice is a pretty good fit for Lincoln, and recalls the voice Daniel Day-Lewis adopted when he played the 16th President in Lincoln over eight decades later.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Artistic License – History: Filled to the brim, so much that this film verges on Very Loosely Based on a True Story. Historians still aren't sure just how serious Lincoln's thing with Ann Rutledge was, but he probably didn't collapse on her grave during a thunderstorm. Lincoln is portrayed as being shocked when the Republican Party nominates him in 1860. In Real Life, Lincoln wanted to be president really bad, and he had a whole team of people working to make it happen at the 1860 convention. The film conflates the Confederate raid on the outskirts of Washington in July of 1864 with the battle of Cedar Creek in October 1864 (the latter being the one in which Phil Sheridan rode through and rallied his panicked troops.) Most egregiously, the film has Lincoln deliver a speech at Ford's Theatre, namely, a mashup of the Gettysburg Address and and Second Inaugural Address. Given who made the movie (D. W. Griffith, who infamously directed The Birth of a Nation), it should not surprise that it sits somewhere between "Lost Cause" and "Dunning School" on the historic mythmaking-scale. | |
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Lincoln is portrayed as being shocked when the Republican Party nominates him in 1860. In Real Life, Lincoln wanted to be president really bad, and he had a whole team of people working to make it happen at the 1860 convention. | |
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