Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

1939 | 1h 40m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

The future president considers a political career while practicing law.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

John Ford

CAST

Henry Fonda

Alice Brady

Marjorie Weaver

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

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Host Intros

01:46
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Intro Aired: Jan 2019
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.

Related Videos

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Did He Get On?
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With a long pause on a poem, John Ford begins with pompous Stuart (Edwin Maxwell) introducing lanky Abe (Henry Fonda), then his first encounter with the pivotal, but fictional, Clay family, in Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Love Red Hair
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The entire performance by Pauline Moore (as first-love Ann Rutledge), coming upon Abe (Henry Fonda) reading law in the woods, early in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939, from Lamar Trotti's original screenplay.
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Blessed Are The Merciful
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New lawyer Abe (Henry Fonda) quells a mob, featuring Jack Pennick as "Big Buck," ready to lynch his first clients, their mother (Alice Brady) looking on, in a wholly fictional scene from John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Yessiree Bob
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In his first piece of lawyering, Abe (Henry Fonda) settles a dispute between clients Hawthorne (Charles Halton) and Woolridge (Russell Simpson), in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.

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