Saving Lincoln

Saving Lincoln
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Salvador Litvak
Written by	Salvador Litvak Nina Davidovich Litvak
Produced by	Reuben Lim Salvador Litvak
Starring	Tom Amandes Lea Coco Saidah Arrika Ekulona Creed Bratton Josh Stamberg Bruce Davison Penelope Ann Miller
Cinematography	Alexandre Naufel
Edited by	Josh Noyes
Music by	Mark Adler
Production companies	Pictures From the Fringe Lane Street Pictures
Release date	February 13, 2013 (2013-02-13)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Saving Lincoln is a 2013 American historical drama film about Ward Hill Lamon, a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, and follows their overlapping legal careers in Illinois prior to the American Civil War. Lamon accompanied Lincoln to Washington and served as the President's main bodyguard during the war, thwarting several assassination attempts while holding the post of US Marshal. Lincoln sent Lamon to Richmond, Virginia, on Reconstruction business a few days before April 14, 1865, the day that John Wilkes Booth assassinated the President.

The film was shot on a green screen stage, using the CineCollage technique invented by the director Salvador Litvak to create interior and exterior locations. Actors, extras, furniture, and props were filmed and combined with period photographs via the CineCollage process, which relied on off-the-shelf visual effects tools. The end result was a stylized look that reflects the movie's narrative structure, which involves Lamon's personal recollections of his friend. This was the first time such a technique was used to create an entire feature film.^[1] The film released on February 13, 2013.^[2]