...why wasn't there a sequel? It would have been interesting to see the same cast (especially Massey) handling the Civil War years.
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Yes that would have been interesting. When is this going to be available on DVD?
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Yeah, a sequel would have been nice, but not really necessary. Lincoln's years as President during the Civil War are much more well-known than his days as the struggling, self-educated, ambitious young attorney.
Besides, it wasn't long after ALIN's release that the US found itself plunged into war in the south Pacific and in Europe.. I can't think of any Civil War dramas that were being made while we were in the thick of WWII.
Yes, when is this going to be available on DVD? Turner Classic Movies is airing it Wednesday, Sept.17, 2008 at 8 PM EDT. They are also airing it in December.
I wonder if there is soon to be a DVD release and this is why they are airing it twice.
> Yes, when is this going to be available on DVD?
I say the same thing to my self about "I Married a Witch" quite often...
I capped this movie, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), last night. Luckily, the symbol machine was off, so I got a perfect clean copy. I do barter and trade, occasionally.
> I wonder if there is soon to be a DVD release and this is why they are airing it twice.
Maybe, but I doubt it. They are showing the Red Balloon (1956) twice in a similar pattern, they play Singin' in the Rain twice per month... I am still waiting on Sealed Cargo after four or more years of waiting, my copy has one AMC symbol I can easily patch out... or Underwater, a rare Howard Hughes film, my copy was glitched by the huge thunderstorms 13 months ago in August 2007, and Jane Russell did not get a day for her movies this year in August...
These things are frustrating (is it not obvious?), but then I think of the mint copy I possess of Land of the Pharaohs (1955), a very hard film to find a good copy of, and I sleep well. Or Rio Bravo, another film assailed by a horrible DVD release... there are so many thousands...
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Funny how an innocuous question about a DVD release provides you with the impetus to try to drum up business. How amusing indeed.
sharei am going to portray honest Abe tomorrow...
shareAbe may have been honest, but was Hollywood, in 1940, when they didn't have to be politically correct? Lincoln was anti-slavery but not a feverish abolitionist like John Brown. Lincoln's issue was with secession, i.e. 'a house divided.' Lincoln would have let the south continue with slavery. Northern industrialists influenced Abe, who engaged with the south after they declared war by the South Carolina secession and bombing of Ft. Sumter. The film makes it appear that Lincoln was akin to John Brown. Lincoln only wanted peace and unification.
shareThere were Radical Republicans and Moderate Republicans. The Radical Republicans wanted the abolition of slavery now, while the Moderate Republicans wanted to end the expansion of slavery into new territory to encourage its natural death and avoid the political turmoil that would come with abolition.
When the south saw Lincoln elected, even though it was the direct result of the splitting of the Democrat party over the issue of slavery they knew that it was a death knell for slavery. It might take years yet to come about, but it would come. So they consciously chose to secede from the Union and fomented for war. They wanted the war and did everything they could to make it happen, including firing on Federal property. They were traitors in accord with the definition in the U.S. Constitution by making war on the United States.
President Lincoln took advantage of that. He did not go to war to end slavery, but to maintain the Union. The south was determined to make it a war about slavery, so he gave them what they wanted. It actually worked to the desires of the Republican party and Abraham Lincoln.
Much like the Battle of the Bulge probably accelerated the demise of Nazi Germany, the secession of the southern states certainly greatly accelerated the end of slavery in the United States.
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Northern industrialists influenced Abe, who engaged with the south after they declared war by the South Carolina secession and bombing of Ft. Sumter.
You know it's illegal to offer such copies, don't you? You can make one copy for yourself, but you are not supposed to offer a copy in exchange for anything of value. And you are not to make multiple copies for either sale or free distribution.
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