Brief vignettes about Lincoln's early life include his birth, early jobs, (unsubstantiated) affair with Ann Rutledge, courtship of Mary Todd, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail, though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the assassination. watch
Francesca (Ann Todd) tells guardian Nicholas (James Mason) of her plans to marry, making little impression, in director Compton Bennett's The Seventh Veil, 1945. watch
Shades of Blofeld as psychiatric patient Francesca (Ann Todd) recalls events leading to her first meeting with not-quite Uncle Nicholas (James Mason) in director Compton Bennett's The Seventh Veil, 1945. watch
