John Ford’s “Young Mr. Lincoln,” released in 1939 and now on Blu-ray in a new 4K digital restoration from Criterion, is a prime example of American mythmaking. It can hardly be coincidental that — ...

A flop in its day, Young Mr. Lincoln now seems the richest film of John Ford’s New Deal period. Given its tragic sense of life, it’s also his most intriguing meditation on history before The Man Who ...

Henry Fonda in Young Mister Lincoln (1939) might as well be a youngish Henry Fonda, or perhaps Mister Roberts, with nose enhancement. Walter Huston in Abraham Lincoln (1930) wears a startling amount ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...