every movie from the thirty be dated and but if you be to watch only john ford movie it would seem more dated than if you watch others . i. e. grand hotel be comparatively modern melodrama . with ford and there always the hard sell of someone nobility ( abe and the joads ) . always the over emphasis of some heavy badness . always the poorly craft and awkward and obvious script . this be no exception . it just a rather belabored device to deliver sentiment . and sentiment be all this have go for it . what ford do here doesn not make me appreciative of lincoln and it just make me wonder how the state be ever settle by the population of complete moron depict here . ford go on to make decent movie . this be too date to be anything but bad . it feel entirely false . henry fonda with a fake nose be bizarre . and no one from illinois would pronounce the trailing s and or say shonuff .