Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) - (Movie Clip) Blessed Are The Merciful

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Did He Get On?

With a long pause on a poem, John Ford begins with pompous Stuart (Edwin Maxwell) introducing lanky Abe (Henry Fonda), then his first encounter with the pivotal, but fictional, Clay family, in Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Love Red Hair

The entire performance by Pauline Moore (as first-love Ann Rutledge), coming upon Abe (Henry Fonda) reading law in the woods, early in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939, from Lamar Trotti's original screenplay.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Yessiree Bob

In his first piece of lawyering, Abe (Henry Fonda) settles a dispute between clients Hawthorne (Charles Halton) and Woolridge (Russell Simpson), in John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln, 1939.