Il cavaliere della libertà
Trama
Nato da una famiglia di boscaioli, Abraham Lincoln è un giovane intraprendente: si laurea in legge, diventa avvocato e comincia a occuparsi con passione di politica. La sua carriera è rapidissima, fino all'elezione alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti alla vigilia della guerra civile. Lincoln riesce a porre termine al conflitto e a tenere unita la nazione, ma proprio quando tutto sembra risolto viene ucciso in un attentato.
(1930) Storia , Dramma
Data rilascio : 08/11/1930
regia di D.W. Griffith
Incasso : 400.000,00 $
Cast
Walter Huston - Abraham Lincoln
Una Merkel - Ann Rutledge
William L. Thorne - Tom Lincoln
Lucille La Verne - Mid-Wife
Helen Freeman - Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Otto Hoffman - Offut
Edgar Dearing - Armstrong
Russell Simpson - Lincoln's Employer
Charles Crockett - Sheriff
Kay Hammond - Mary Todd Lincoln
Helen Ware - Mrs. Edwards
E. Alyn Warren - Stephen A. Douglas / General Grant
Jason Robards Sr. - Herndon
Gordon Thorpe - Tad Lincoln
Ian Keith - John Wilkes Booth
Cameron Prud'Homme - John Hay - Secretary to the President
James Bradbury Sr. - Gen. Winfield Scott
James Eagles - Young Soldier
Oscar Apfel - Secretary of War Stanton
Frank Campeau - General Sheridan
Hobart Bosworth - General Robert E. Lee
Henry B. Walthall - Colonel Marshall
Hank Bell - Townsman in Offut's Store (uncredited)
Maurice Black - Conspirator (uncredited)
Ed Brady - Confederate Courier (uncredited)
Robert Brower - (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps - Conspirator (uncredited)
Mary Forbes - Actress (uncredited)
Francis Ford - Sheridan's Aide (uncredited)
Robert Homans - A Senator - One of Lincoln's Advisors (uncredited)
Jane Keckley - Matchmaker (uncredited)
Robert Keith - Union Courier (uncredited)
Henry Kolker - New Englander (uncredited)
Ralph Lewis - Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
George MacQuarrie - Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
Scott Seaton - Minor Role (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale - Member of Lincoln's Cabinet (uncredited)
Harry Stubbs - Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Kathrin Clare Ward - Townswoman at Ann's Death (uncredited)