Abraham Lincoln 1930

Mordaunt Hall, New York Times: It is quite a worthy pictorial offering with a genuinely fine and inspiring performance by Walter Huston in the role of the martyred President. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Abraham Lincoln is a startlingly superlative accomplishment. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Working with the sort of mythic material later associated with John Ford, Griffith gives us a primordial Lincoln, perfectly incarnated by Walter Huston, and a dreamlike sense of destiny that his camera fully articulates. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: D. W. Griffith's first sound film, from 1930, is as ungainly and majestic as its subject. Read more