Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Original title)Spirit of the People (Alternative title)So Great a Man (Alternative title)
Date: 1940 (Copyright)Country: USADirected by: John Cromwell
Production company billing: ©1940 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Corp. presents
Synopsis: Biographical drama dealing with the early and middle years of the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), Politics
Releases
Date: 1940Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 110 mins Length: 9890 FeetLanguage: English
Title: Hero or Demagogue? Images of Lincoln in American FilmAuthor: PIPOLO, Tony Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Looks at representations of Abraham Lincoln in films and reviews several DVD releases of films.
In: Sight and Sound Supplement n14 March 1948 Page: 12
Title: [Sight and Sound Supplement - n14 March 1948: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Brief credits within an index on blacks in films 1905-1948.
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v7 n75 March 1940 Page: 43
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v7 n75 March 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v54 n4386 6 Mar 1940
Title: [Today's Cinema - v54 n4386 6 Mar 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v138 n4 27 Jan 1940
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v138 n4 27 Jan 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Documentary News Letter v1 n4 April 1940 Page: 9
Title: [Documentary News Letter - v1 n4 April 1940: no known title]Language: English
In:
Title: [ - : no known title]
In: Page: 14
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(10)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 9867 FeetBFI identifier: C-160343
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(10)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1220611
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 9867 FeetBFI identifier: C-160343
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 150 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-200295
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 150 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-200297
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 9874 FeetStock date: 1972BFI identifier: C-200298
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 9874 FeetStock date: 1971BFI identifier: C-200299
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: MixedSound: MuteLength: 50 FeetStock date: 1958BFI identifier: C-200294
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10200 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-200296
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteBFI identifier: C-160341
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundBFI identifier: C-160342
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 1940 (Copyright)Country: USADirected by: John Cromwell
Production company billing: ©1940 RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Corp. presents
Synopsis: Biographical drama dealing with the early and middle years of the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Biopic, Historical drama
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865), Politics
Releases
Date: 1940Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 110 mins Length: 9890 FeetLanguage: English
Credits
(62)
[Subject of Film]: Abraham Lincoln, Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures, Presented by: Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Corp, Produced by: Max Gordon, [Unit Manager]: Harold Lewis, [Location Manager]: Louis Shapiro, Assistant Director: Dewey Starkey, [Assistant Director]: William Dorfman, [Assistant Director]: Harry Mancke, Grayson Rogers, [Script Clerk]: Corynn Kiehl, Adele Cannon, [Casting Director]: Charles Richards, Screen Play by/Based on the Play by: Robert E. Sherwood, Adaptation by: Grover Jones, Director of Photography: James Wong Howe, [2nd Camera]: Eddie Pyle, James Daly, [Assistant Camera]: Emmett Bergholz, Ledge Haddow, [Electrician]: William Monroe, [Grip]: H.J. Brandon, [Grip]: Stan Chandler, [Grip]: William Record, [Grip]: Earl Gilpin, [Grip]: Eugene Fribourge, [Grip]: E.T. Harris, [Grip]: William Handy, Jack McCrackin, [Stills]: Alexander Kahle, Special Effects by: Vernon L. Walker, [Special Effects]: Bud Hulburd, [Special Effects]: D. Kohler, [Special Effects]: W. Kimpton, Ken Koontz, Montage by: Douglas Travers, Edited by: George Hively, Art Director: Van Nest Polglase, Associate [Art Director]: Carroll Clark, Set Decorations by: Casey Roberts, [Props]: Charles Matthews, William Hartman, Wardrobe by: Walter Plunkett, [Ladies' Wardrobe]: Ann Landers, [1st Wardrobe Man]: Tom Clark, [2nd Wardrobe Man]: Frank Carr, [Raymond Massey's Wardrobe]: Bert Hall, [Make-up]: James Barker, [Make-up]: Maurice Seiderman, [Make-up]: Don Cash, Norbert Miles, [Hairdresser]: Hazel Rogers, Doris Harris, Musical Score by: Roy Webb, Dance Director: David Robel, Recorded by: Hugh Mcdowell Jr, [Sound Stage manager]: Dan Kellerber, [Technical Director]: Lillian K. Deighton, [Stand-in for Raymond Massey]: Stafford Campbell, [Publicity]: Charles Leonard, [General Press Representative]: Barret McCormick
Cast
(71)
Raymond Massey (Abraham 'Abe' Lincoln), Gene Lockhart (Stephen A. Douglas), Ruth Gordon (Mary Todd Lincoln), Mary Howard (Ann Rutledge), Minor Watson (Joshua Speed), Harvey Stephens (Ninian Edwards), Alan Baxter (Billy Herndon), Howard da Silva (Jack Armstrong), Dorothy Tree (Elizabeth Edwards), Aldrich Bowker (Judge Bowling Green), Maurice Murphy (John McNeil), Louis Jean Heydt (Mentor Graham), Clem Bevans (Ben Mattling), Harlan Briggs (Denton Offut), Herbert Rudley (Seth Gale), Andy Clyde (stage driver), Roger Imhof (Mr Crimmin), Edmund Elton (Mr Rutledge), Leona Roberts (Mrs Rutledge), Florence Roberts (Mrs Bowling Green), George Rosener (Dr Chandler), Trevor Bardette (John Hanks), Syd Saylor (John Johnston), Elisabeth Risdon (Sarah Lincoln), Charles Middleton (Tom Lincoln), Alec Craig (Trum Cogdall), Dick Wessel ([New Salem man]), Fay Helm ([Mrs Seth Gale]), Dorothea Wolbert ([woman in store]), Jane Corcoran, Kathleen Proctor ([woman in street]), Adda Gleason ([maid]), John Cromwell ([John Brown]), Selmer Jackson ([politician with message]), Edwin Mills ([Robert Lincoln]), Sonny Bupp ([Willie Lincoln]), Henry Blair ([Tad Lincoln]), Ian Wolfe ([Horace Greely]), Byron Foulger, Dick Elliott ([politician]), Esther Dale ([Lincolns' maid]), Napoleon Simpson ([Gobey]), Peggy Ann Garner ([little girl]), Erville Alderson ([Andrew Jackson]), Harry Humphries ([Daniel Webster]), Guy Usher, George Guhl, Dan Clark, Gus Glassmire, Paul Everton, Dell Henderson, Wallis Clark, Paul Guilfoyle, Victor Kilian, Emory Parnell, George Chandler, Robert Elliott, Kathryn Sheldon, Fern Emmett, C. Hayes, Milton Kibbee, Landers Stevens, John St. Polis, Florence Rutledge, William Royle, Tom Chatterton, Robert Middlemass, Edward Fielding, Bryant Washburn, William Worthington, Lorin Raker ([uncredited])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(8)
In: Cinéaste v35 n1 Winter 2009 Pages: 14-21Title: Hero or Demagogue? Images of Lincoln in American FilmAuthor: PIPOLO, Tony Article type: ArticleLanguage: English
Description: Looks at representations of Abraham Lincoln in films and reviews several DVD releases of films.
In: Sight and Sound Supplement n14 March 1948 Page: 12
Title: [Sight and Sound Supplement - n14 March 1948: no known title]Article type: CreditsLanguage: English
Description: Brief credits within an index on blacks in films 1905-1948.
In: Monthly Film Bulletin v7 n75 March 1940 Page: 43
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v7 n75 March 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Today's Cinema v54 n4386 6 Mar 1940
Title: [Today's Cinema - v54 n4386 6 Mar 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v138 n4 27 Jan 1940
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v138 n4 27 Jan 1940: no known title]Language: English
In: Documentary News Letter v1 n4 April 1940 Page: 9
Title: [Documentary News Letter - v1 n4 April 1940: no known title]Language: English
In:
Title: [ - : no known title]
In: Page: 14
Title: [ - : no known title]
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(10)
Accessible materials to view(1)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 9867 FeetBFI identifier: C-160343
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Film materials(10)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-1220611
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 9867 FeetBFI identifier: C-160343
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 150 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-200295
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 150 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-200297
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: Combined as MuteLength: 9874 FeetStock date: 1972BFI identifier: C-200298
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 9874 FeetStock date: 1971BFI identifier: C-200299
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: MixedSound: MuteLength: 50 FeetStock date: 1958BFI identifier: C-200294
Status: Status pending - Material requires inspection to determine preservation or access status
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10200 FeetStock date: 1939BFI identifier: C-200296
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteBFI identifier: C-160341
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundBFI identifier: C-160342
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film