Abraham Lincoln (1930 film)

Abraham Lincoln
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Written by	Stephen Vincent Benét (adapted for the screen) John W. Considine Jr. (story and production adviser) Stephen Vincent Benét and Gerrit Lloyd (continuity and dialogue)
Produced by	D. W. Griffith Joseph M. Schenck
Starring	Walter Huston Una Merkel
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	James Smith Hal C. Kern (editorial adviser)
Music by	Hugo Riesenfeld (music arrangements)
Production company	United Artists
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	August 25, 1930 (1930-08-25)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Abraham Lincoln, also released under the title D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln", is a 1930 pre-Code American biographical film about Abraham Lincoln directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Walter Huston as Lincoln and Una Merkel, in her second speaking role, as Ann Rutledge. The script was co-written by Stephen Vincent Benét, author of the Civil War prose poem John Brown's Body (1928), and Gerrit Lloyd. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith.

The film entered the public domain in 1958 when the initial copyright expired. The copyright holders did not elect to extend it for a second 28-year term.^[1][2]