Dark Command
[rating:2.0] While Dark Command is entertaining and surprisingly dark for 1940, it completely airbrushes the savagery that made the fighting in the Missouri-Kansas region a particularly brutal part of...
View ArticleSanta Fe Trail
[rating:1.5] Santa Fe Trail (1940) covers Bleeding Kansas and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, which helped start the American Civil War, but not even Errol Flynn's limitless charm can redeem a...
View ArticleAbe Lincoln in Illinois
[rating:2.0] Unbelievably boring, the movie follows the correct sequence of events but drastically changes Abraham Lincoln's character to fit the needs of the script, while its plodding pacing makes...
View ArticleYoung Mr. Lincoln
[rating:3.5] The movie presents Abraham Lincoln's first major case as a young lawyer in Springfield, Illinois, where he defends two young strangers accused of murdering a popular deputy. Director John...
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