Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tragic death, Lincoln establishes a law practice in Springfield, where he meets a young Mary Todd. Lincoln's law skills are put to the test when he takes on the difficult task of defending two brothers who have been accused of murder.
- self-defense
- witness
- illinois
- trial
- murder
- lawyer
- black and white
- false accusations
- lynching
- springfield illinois
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Eddie Collins — Efe Turner
- Pauline Moore — Ann Rutledge
- Richard Cromwell — Matt Clay
- Donald Meek — Prosecutor John Felder
- Eddie Quillan — Adam Clay
- Spencer Charters — Judge Herbert A. Bell
- Ward Bond — John Palmer Cass
- Jack Kelly — Matt Clay as a Boy (uncredited)
- Edwin Maxwell — John T. Stuart (uncredited)
- Milburn Stone — Stephen A. Douglas (uncredited)
- Ernie Adams — Man with Lynch Mob (uncredited)
- Directed
- John Ford
- Written
- Lamar Trotti
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 192 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Cosmopolitan Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
