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When Lincoln Paid
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Two reels
Directed by Francis Ford
Cast: Francis Ford [Abraham Lincoln], Ethel Grandin [Mrs. Barnes], Charles Elder (Charles Edler) [Confederate General Porter], Jack Conway [Bob Porter, the General’s son]
New York Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Kay-Bee]. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by William H. Clifford. / Released 31 January 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The sole surviving print was recovered in 2006 from a New Hampshire barn and donated to the Keene State College Film Society.
Drama: Historical: Civil War.
Synopsis: [From New York Motion Picture Company promotional materials] A great war drama, with stirring scenes of battle, showing how Lincoln repaid a debt incurred in his youth by exercising his power as president in extending clemency to a man about to be shot as a spy. Wonderful dramatic work showing the conflict of emotions of a mother, thirsting for revenge on the man who sentenced her boy to death, but allows her maternal instinct to prevail and saves the doomed son of the man from a similar fate.
Survival status: Print exists in the film holdings of Keene State College (New Hampshire) [incomplete].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: History: USA: American Civil War (1861-1865) - Presidents: USA: Abraham Lincoln
Listing updated: 27 July 2024.
References: Pitts-Hollywood p. 5; Tarbox-Lost pp. 82, 120, 279 : ClasIm-224 p. 42 : Website-IMDb : with additional information provided by Lawrence Benaquist.
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