Young Mr. Lincoln
Directed by: John Ford
Saturday, February 23 - 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
100 MinutesUSA, 1939
