The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

James L. Conway

Writers:

David Balsiger (book)
Jonathan Cobbler (writer)

Release Date:

October 1977 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

You know the story ---- now see the FACTS! The truth behind the assassination of President Lincoln.

Plot:

Sunn Classics "speculative fiction" film proposing a theory that the killer of Abe Lincoln escaped to...

Plot Keywords:

Canada | Assassination Plot | Mary Todd Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln | 1860s

Cast

Bradford Dillman	...	John Wilkes Booth
John Dehner	...	Colonel Lafayette C. Baker
John Anderson	...	Abraham Lincoln
Robert Middleton	...	Edwin M. Stanton
James Green	...	Capt. James William Boyd
Whit Bissell	...	Sen. John Conness
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christopher Allport	...	Michael O'Laughlin
E.J. André	...	Rep. Thaddeus Stevens
Bruce Atkins	...	John Parker
Charlie Briggs	...	Andrew Potter
Paul Brown	...	Thomas Caldwell
Howard Brunner	...	Louis J. Weichmann
Fred Buch	...	Capt. D.H. Gleason
Dick Callinan	...	Sen. Benjamin Wade
John Cooler	...	Maj. Henry Rathbone
Brad Crandall	...	Narrator
Liz Dent	...	Clara Harris
Bill Dial	...	George Atzerodt
Joe Dorsey	...	Lt. Edward P. Doherty
J. Don Ferguson	...	Lt. Luther Baker
Dan Fitzgerald	...	Sanford Conover
Ralph Flanders	...	Richard Garrett
Jerry Fleck	...	Edward Spangler
Frances Fordham	...	Mary Todd Lincoln
Randolph R. Gordon	...	Lincoln's coach driver
Fred Grandy	...	David Herold
William H. Gribble	...	Capt. Willie Jett
Mark Harris	...	Luther Potter
Ned Hartnett	...	Christopher C. Auger
Ted Henning	...	Robert Campbell
Marshall Hilliard	...	Boy #1
Mimi Honce	...	Mary Surratt
Maurice Hunt	...	Rep. A.J. Rogers
Billy J. Johnson	...	Sen. Zachariah Chandler
Ben Jones	...	Samuel Arnold
Doug Kaye	...	Lincoln's Secretary
Ken Kercheval	...	John Surratt
Ed Lupinski	...	Edwin Henson
John MacKay	...	James Merritt
Ben Mayo	...	Richard Montgomery
Greg Oliver	...	Rep. George Julian (as Gregory J. Oliver)
Larry Quackenbush	...	Harry Ford
Frank Schuller	...	Lt. Everton Conger
Sonny Shroyer	...	Lewis Paine
Albert Smith	...	Ferryman
Bill Travis	...	Sen. George Boutwell
Len Wayland	...	Ward H. Lamon
Wallace K. Wilkinson	...	Dr. Samuel Mudd
Patrick M. Wright	...	Maj. Thomas Eckert (as Patrick Wright)

Runtime:

USA:90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:G

Filming Locations:

Fort Pulaski, South Carolina, USA

Company:

Sunn Classic Pictures

Trivia:

Final film of Robert Middleton.

interesting speculation

I saw this film as a kid. It was one of the several great Sunn Classic Documentaries. The best one is The Mysterious Monsters. Its a good film that raises a lot of questions. Why wasn't Lincoln given better protection at Ford's Theater that night. Contrary to popular belief, he was one of our most hated Presidents. Why did they so quickly bury the body of the man killed at Garret's farm? Why didn't they even take a picture of it? How was Booth able to escape so easily? Stanton was a tyrant, but was he really part of the conspiracy to kill the President? People have often pointed out there are a lot of coincidences in the lives (and deaths) of President Lincoln and President Kennedy one of them is there is still so much unresolved about their assassinations and whether there was a conspiracy. These are great tragedies for our nation and the fact we will never know all of the pertinent facts makes them even more tragic. Bradford Dillman made a good Booth. I best think of him though as Dirty Harry's dumb captain.