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Majestic--D. W. Griffith again makes his appearance with a film on Linooln which has attracted considerable favorable comment...
...make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since there is nothing in public life today remotely approaching the Lincoln legend, .perhaps Director Griffith's judgment was as good from the patriotic as from the financial point of view. Moreover, perhaps the schoolbook Lincoln is essentially the great Lincoln...
First important picture made in six years by Director Griffith, its old-fashioned technique is surprising at first, until you begin to feel it appropriate to the subject in hand. Often the transition from one crisis in Lincoln's career to another is so abrupt as to seem superficial. In part this is because of the limitations which program-time impose on the film's structure (it lasts only 100 minutes). The dialog by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet is less a factor in the picture's success than the masterly acting of Walter Huston in the title role. Sometimes...
Brutal, brilliant battle scenes dominate the action. Preëminent in the cast is Louis Wolheim as Kat. Best shot: Raymond Griffith (silk hat comedian) as the bloody, bearded French poilu stabbed to death in a shell hole...
...summary: U. S. MARINES HARVARD Zimmerman, f.b. f.b., Carter Roberts, r.w. r.w., Eaton Poppelman, r.c. r.c., Snelling Long, l.c. l.c., Parker O'Donnell, l.w. l.w., Farris Presley, McCaffery, h.b. h.b., Kirkland Gerard, h.b. h.b., Williams Costello, 1r.f. 1r.f., Elmore Wingo, 1r.f. 1r.f., Hammond Anderson, 1r.f. 1r.f., Griffith Parks, 2l.f. 2l.f., White Sherman, 2l.f. 2l.f. Burrage Hudson, f. f., Draper Hughes, f. f., Mein Moe, f. f., Strauss...