Cinema: New Picture: Jun. 12, 1939

Young Mr. Lincoln (Twentieth Century-Fox). The world should little note, nor long remember the story of Young Mr. Lincoln, for if it does, history may have to take a back seat. It is as if Darryl F. Zanuck had signed Mr. Lincoln to play in a swift, humorous, bathetic little piece of last century fiction. The result is an ingenuous jumble of history and fancy, its main theme being the story of how young Lawyer Lincoln, at 30, won his famous murder case with the help of the moon and a farmer's almanac, a trial...

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