henry fonda brilliantly capture what we have long believe abraham lincoln be like . it be a fooler . through fonda performance we be lead to believe ( on the surface ) that abraham lincoln be a country bumpkin . but and through his confrontation with the lynch mob and especially during the court proceeding and you can see that beneath the exterior posturing be a brilliant man who have a very good command of what be go on around him and how to influence the people around him . in this movie henry fonda show that he have a very good grasp of how to present humor . it be an aspect of him that have be lose over the year . when he be tell story and joke he have the time down perfect . there be a sequence in the trial that have me laugh quite hard . he show this gift again in the lady eve in 1940. the end by john ford be absolutely brilliant with henry fonda go to the top of a hill and in the distance a tremendous storm symbolic of the civil war . he go forward into history . the movie be fiction but the insight into lincoln be tremendous . definitely worth see again .