You're thinking of Samuel J Seymour, who was 5 years old at the time of the assassination and famously lived to appear on the February 9, 1956, episode of the TV quiz show I've Got a Secret. By a weird twist, Mr. Seymour passed away nine weeks later on April 12 at the age of 96. He was the last living witness to the Lincoln Assassination. The episode is readily available in many forms on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UtF4sYya-0c.html Incidentally, the last person to ever see Lincoln's face was Fleetwood Lindley, who died in 1963.
James Bradbury Sr. (who played Winfield Scott in this film) was 7 years old when Lincoln died and 8 when the real Winfield Scott died, seems to be the oldest actor in the cast list as far as I could find. D.W Griffith, the director, was born just 10 years after the Civil War. Certainly within living memory for many people watching the movie.
Oh my, colorized. Great movie. At my age it was on TV quite frequently as a kid. I have it on DVD, the Dollar Store DVD Specials. Thanks for the movie!
This is a very underrated biopic about Abraham Lincoln starring Walter Huston and directed by one of the most important directors in the history of cinema, D.W. Griffith, who is mostly famous for his silent epics of the 1910s that revolutionized how movies were made, such as Intolerance and Broken Blossoms, many starring Lillian Gish. Walter Huston gives a very great performance in this Lincoln movie, as he always did. Of course, there have been notably two other very famous masterpiece biopics about Abraham Lincoln, one in 1939 starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, called Young Mr. Lincoln. As well as one in 2012 starring Daniel Day-Lewis and directed by Steven Spielberg, called Lincoln. Both are great and see those movies as well if you haven't. What makes this movie interesting is that this was the first attempt to make a sound movie about Abraham Lincoln, as well as one of the only two sound movies that D.W. Griffith would direct before retiring. It's actually quite surreal that Walter Huston worked with D.W. Griffith, when you consider how long the Huston Acting family has been in the business and continues to thrive in show business today. Walter Huston's family descendants, John(Walter's son), Angelica(John's Daughter), Danny(John's Son), Tony(John's Son) and Jack(Tony's Son) have all made successful careers for themselves afterwards, with John Huston of course becoming one of the most legendary directors in history. Anjelica and Danny are now well respected actors still working today and Tony became a screenwriter, while Jack Huston is also working today, maybe some of you remember him as Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire. At the end of the day, the Hustons are a very successful family and they all have Walter, the patriarch, to thank for the foundation of their success. Now, I know the elephant of the room is that yes, D.W. Griffith is the one that directed The Birth Of A Nation (1915), and I would like to direct you all to a very interesting interview that Walter Huston and D.W. Griffith did when The Birth Of A Nation was re-released in theaters in 1931. While it doesn't excuse D.W. Griffith for his degrading portrayal of the Civil War era, it is still a very worthwhile discussion that gives D.W. an opportunity to speak about the film and his perspective of life. It's an interesting piece of history that needs to be remembered, for history's sake and humanity's sake. The Interview: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x8UUl1mhsrw.html
It's also worth noting that a good number of DWG's stock players (and alumni of Birth of a Nation) also appear in this film - most notably Hobart Bosworth and Henry Walthall, who turn in astonishingly sensitive and heartfelt performances as Robert E Lee and his aide.
Fun fact : this movie gets its own chapter (1st in alphabetical order) in the Brothers Medved's landmark study "The Fifty Worst Movies Ever Made"!! I resolved long ago to watch all 50, and YOU have brought me nearer to Mission Accomplished...!!
_Wow, my dearest Helen! Only by the name of the director of this old movie from 93 years ago, it worthwhile tô be seen...D.W. Griffith is Cinema's History itself! Walter Huston is great, Una Merkel too...! Abe Lincoln, the greatest president of all America History deserves indeed this magnificent hommage! Born in Kentucky from a poor Family he began as woodcutter, being a great lawyer, polítician and a wise man...Unhappilly Civil War is a shadow to his past, even só he was great indeed! It Will be a great documentary...I hope that you enjoy it with us here on CCC movie chat at live! God bless you always, my Sweet Helen from my heart!_ 🤩🤩🤗🤗
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic_ Hi, Meade Music! You have all right to reply with your own point of view, because I'm not north American, but Brazilian...How I said before he had a Civil War during his government, in which under his command even his homeland was burned till ashes...War is a terrible thing indeed! But he was greatest because he was a selfmade man...he learned many things by himself...from a poor Life till be POTUS of a great Nation...We had here too at that very same time a great man called Dom Pedro II, our Imperor, a true wise man indeed, beloved even for the americans (he received 19.000 votes in Philadelfia tô be President of United States)...But he also had a shadow in his past...The War of Paraguay, when Brazil destroyed that poor country...Even you don't agreeing with me, I can say tô you with no doubt that Abraham Lincoln was really the greatest President of América, because is such thing that everybody outside United States of América Thinks until now...! And I must confess tô you that if I Lived at that time I would like tô fight for Dixieland...I like much more the Southern Idea of a great country with cottonland as the center of economy...much more than the development of northern factories...About 114 Southern Dixieland families came here tô Brazil After Civil War and founded a Town called Americana, where there's also a Civil War Cemetery....! God bless you always, Meade Music!_
When this picture was made in 1930 ( only three years after the first 'talkie' film), it was only 65 years after the actual Lincoln assassination! Today, that's like thinking back to 1959! Great. early classic! p.s. I've always thought that with the right make-up, Gary Cooper would have made a great Lincoln!
Walter Huston is Excellent! Una Merkle is Excellent! The Costumes are Beautiful! The Sets are Excellent! The Character Makeup is Excellent! The Cast is Excellent! Fact, Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky. Mary Todd Lincoln was born and raised in Kentucky. Mary Todd Lincoln was bipolar. Actress Una Merkle was born in Covington, Kentucky. I was born in central Kentucky and grew up in northern Kentucky, just two miles from Covington, Kentucky. This is not the full movie! The subtitles don't match the dialogue at all! Factual quotes and poems cannot be rewritten in subtitles! The arithmetic is incorrect! In the scene with Mr. Hays, the number of men is 5000 not 500! It is not a silent movie! It is very distracting! The colorization undermines the original cinematography. The restored scenes are not included in this video. The sound was lost but the scenes are vital to the movie when the movie was released in 1930! The opening scenes shows slaves in chains and shackles on a slave ship and when one of the man slaves passes away the slave traders throw his body overboard. The other scenes are Men from the south sitting around a table toasting to a portrait of George Washinton and then men from the north, New England sitting around a table toasting to a portrait of George Washington. The scene where actor Walter Huston runs from the cabin to the cemetery during the storm to Ann Harding's freshly Dugged grave and covers it with his body to keep it dry. Then the scene where actor Walter Huston as Abraham Lincoln having his horse taken away from him by the sheriff to pay his debts. Unfortunately, The Black Man Slave was portrayed by a Caucasian actor in black face who says, "I threw the gun down and said to my feet travel". This is the first time the audience sees John Wilkes Booth. G.W. Griffith directed the 1915 silent movie Birth of a Nation that unfortunately condones, glorifies and tolerates the Ku Klux Klan, the old south and slavery. Unfortunately, the scene where the confederate soldiers are going off to war are two Caucasian Women Extras in black face portraying two black women slaves waving.
I shut it off at the very end, right before the shooting. The country would have been a much better place then, and today, if he had lived to see his reconstruction vision restore the south correctly.
i was taught in class that booth broke his leg when he jumped down from the box, but i don’t really know if that’s true or not because they didn’t add it here
Probably have Numerous to choose from if you're American 😂... You cant tell the truth even in your own history books... Find that book in the Fantasy section 😅
_Oi, Olivalucilene! Se você ir lá no cantinho direito da tela, em configurações, você consegue achar as legendas em português...Já dublado você não vai conseguir aqui, pois o CCC é um canal americano, de Denver, no Colorado...então.idioma oficial é o inglês mesmo, apesar de vez ou outra ele programar um filme falado em francês ou Italiano...só que até hoje, já há cinco anos, desde o seu início, eu ainda não vi nenhum em espanhol ou português...! Eu também sou brasileiro, mineiro de Muzambinho, no Sul de Minas...Boa Noite, Fica com Deus!_
@@olivalucilene7657 _De nada...Você pode contar aqui sempre comigo...! Sempre faço comentários sobre todos os filmes do CCC, geralmente em inglês, assim como participo vez ou outra do chat ao vivo...Lá sempre aparece pessoal nosso do Brasil...e somos em três que falamos português lá...eu, a Ana Coelho, que é portuguesa, e o Ndec Tablet, americano do Maine, que já esteve aqui no Brasil...É um pessoal muito legal mesmo...você vai gostar...! Fica com Deus!_
Hard now to believe Lincoln was not protected, even though a year earlier, while riding a horse on an evening trot, he was shot through that famous stovepipe hat of his by an assassin.
This Colorized Restored Version Left Out Scenes At The Beginning Of The Original Showing What Was Happening At The Same Time Lincoln Was Born (1809): A Slave Ship Arrives, But The Losses Of The "Cargo", -From Sickness, Suicide, Etc., -Is So Great That One Slave-Seller Complains On How It Would Cut Into Profits. The Ship Owner Assures Him That There's More Lower In The Hull. Two Other Scenes Shows Men In Taverns In Both North And South Complaining How, In The Northerner's Point Of View, That Slave Ownership Was Reaching Too Far Into The New Territories, Wishing That George Washington, -Who Died Just Ten Years Earlier, -Was With Them Now To Find An Answer. The Southerners In The Other Tavern Feel Their Rights And Businesses Are Being Interfered With By The Young-But-Growing Abolitionist Movement. They ALSO Wish Washington, -A Slave Owner Himself, -Was Still With Them With A Solution! -But Knowing THAT'S Not Going To Happen, The Southerners, Conclude That The Only Way To Push Back Is By A Forbidden-But-Spreading Word: SUCCESSION! -And The Ball Starts Rolling Towards An Inevitable, Bloody Conclusion! -Part Of The Reason That This Is NOT Here In This Version Is, Although A Lot Of The Images Were Salvaged, A Lot Of The Sound And Dialog Was Lost! (And Replaced With Subtitles!) -And The Viewer Ends Up Watching A "Silent" Movie For Several Minutes! -D.W. Griffith Had An Obsession With These Types Of Details!
I can’t believe that in 2020 the democrat minions destroyed and removed all the AL statues from all the places. I was confused I thought he did a good thing I have no idea why they made him a bad person other than their usual nonsense.
Oh yea Jefferson Davis spent 2.5 yrs in prison for his stance on states rights . Lincoln said " I did not fight to this war to be President of half a Nation, but to bring back the other half to the Union " Your long live the south Confederate mindset got Lincoln killed . Booth and you think alike . And the dictators of the day were pulling for the half that believed in states rights which protected the right to own slaves . So narrow minded fools get angry when corrected , but a wise man will be thankful for that wisdom . Which are u ? a fool or a wise man . “ The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and heart stone all over this brand land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be , by the better angles of our nature “ Abraham Lincoln
This video of this movie is not the full movie. The restored scenes when the movie was released in 1930 are not included in this video and all these restored scenes are vital to this movie. The subtitles don't match the dialogue! The subtitles are incorrect with both dialogue and the arithmetic! Subtitles cannot rewrite facts, factual statements and poems! This is not a silent movie! The colorization undermines the original cinematography!
Wow poorly done assasination scene. Where was major Rathborn coming to Lincoln's add and being stabed. Booth spur was caught in the flag bunting and he broke his ankle.
Interesting how this movie deals with Lincolns assumed depressive disorder. It's so ambiguous. He may have had a normal grieving for Ann Rutledge ( Una Merkel) 20:52
