A Failure at Fifty

A Failure at Fifty

🎞️ Movie 10 min US
โ˜… 5.9 /10 1940

An unemployed man, apparently a failure at age fifty, peers into a lake, considering his fate. A mysterious stranger comes up and tells him a story of a 'John Jones', and his dark 30 years of hard struggle through life to age 50. This man too was an apparent 'failure at fifty'. He was so depressed at one dark stage of his life, that this man said in his own words: 'At this period of my life, I never dared to carry a pocket knife.' His own friends feared for his very sanity. But then within two years he was elected President. This man was Abraham Lincoln. Suddenly the mysterious stranger is gone, but the unemployed man realizes Lincoln's philosophy: 'God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them.'

Cast

Edmund Glover
Edmund Glover
Abe Lincoln
Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson
Ann Rutledge
Truman Bradley
Truman Bradley
Lincoln's Friend
Carey Wilson
Carey Wilson
Narrator
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Margaret Bert
Ann's Rutledge's Mother
George Chesebro
George Chesebro
Creditor
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Naomi Childers
Partner
Jules Cowles
Jules Cowles
Member of the Senate
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Edward Coxen
Farmer
Olin Francis
Olin Francis
Trader
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Daniele Amfitheatrof
Composer
C. Bakaleinikoff
C. Bakaleinikoff
Composer
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Paul Vogel
Cinematographer