Young Mr. Lincoln

Saturday, February 23, 2013 - Sunday, February 24, 2013

Archival 35mm print — Saturday and Sunday shows ONLY

“Abraham Lincoln was one of John Ford’s personal icons, recurring in film after film, but this is his only appearance as a central character—a young, idealistic, but shrewd Springfield lawyer played by Henry Fonda (in what may be his finest performance). Ford’s mythologizing has seldom seemed stronger or more subtle; the film (1939) stirs feelings about the American past that most of us, I suppose, have missed since childhood. A masterpiece.” – Chicago Reader

• Country USA
• Year 1939
• Running Time 100 minutes
• Director John Ford