Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] [Criterion] (Blu-ray)

Young Mr. Lincoln [1939] [Criterion] (BLU)

John Ford

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Synopsis

Few American historical figures are as revered as Abraham Lincoln, and few director-star collaborations embody classic Hollywood cinema as beautifully as the one between John Ford and Henry Fonda. This film, their first together, was Ford’s equally poetic and significant follow-up to the groundbreaking western Stagecoach, and in it Fonda gives one of the finest performances of his career, as the young president-to-be, a novice lawyer struggling with an incendiary murder case. Photographed in gorgeous black and white by Ford’s frequent collaborator Bert Glennon, Young Mr. Lincoln is a compassionate and assured work and an indelible piece of Americana.

Special Features:

New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New audio commentary featuring film scholar Joseph McBride (Searching for John Ford: A Life)
Omnibus: “John Ford,” part one: filmmaker Lindsay Anderson’s profile of the life and work of director John Ford before World War II
Talk show appearance by actor Henry Fonda from 1975
Audio interviews from the seventies with Ford and Fonda, conducted by the director’s grandson Dan Ford
Academy Award radio dramatization of the film
An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien and an homage to Ford by filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein