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Young Mr. Lincoln (30-May-1939)

Director: John Ford

Writer: Lamar Trotti

Music: Alfred Newman

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Keywords: Drama, Biography, POTUS

Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln starts out as a country lawyer, here defending two brothers wrongly accused of murder. Fictionalized account. Received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Story. Entered 2003 into the National Film Registry. A later film, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), portrays a more melancholy Lincoln.

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