This is a 1939 black and white movie available through instant Netflix. It is directed by John Ford and Henry Fonda plays M. Lincoln. This is not the way you would expect a Lincoln movie to go. Instead this movie touches Lincoln as a man, a fallible, sometimes humorous, melancholy man. He is truly an enigma. There are those scenes where he can control a crowd with his wit and humor an courage; then there are those times when he talks down about himself. This movie is truly a masterpiece. Henry Fonda does a superb job. I learned things about Abraham Lincoln I didn't know. He likely had a love when he was young, who succumbed to typhoid. He was melancholy, and subject to bouts of depression. This movie also presents Lincoln as a lawyer, and it was as spellbinding as Perry Mason. I recommend this movie. Here is a longer review of this comparing it to another Lincoln movie.
http://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2012/11/abraham-lincoln-myth-and-man.html
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