< Sad Figure, Laughing (1975)

EPISODE 1.2 (Lincoln) | 50m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 8.0 (8)

Drama, War | Lincoln's laughter, joking, and storytelling erode the confidence of his colleagues. Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase and his ambitious daughter Kate embark on an underhanded attempt to undermine Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection bid.

• Director: George Schaefer
• Writer: Jerry McNeely
• Writer: Carl Sandburg
• Hal Holbrook (50) - Abraham Lincoln
• Sada Thompson (48) - Mary Todd Lincoln
• Elizabeth Ashley (36) - Kate Chase Sprague
• Roy Poole (51) - Salmon P. Chase
• Severn Darden (46) - Gideon Welles
• Norman Burton (52) - General Ulysses S. Grant
• Michael Cristofer (30) - John Nicolay
• Bert Freed (56) - Edwin Stanton
• James Carroll Jordan (25) - Robert Lincoln
• Jon Cedar (44) - Captain
• Booth Colman (52) - Senator Samuel C. Pomeroy
• Charles Macaulay (48) - Jay Cooke
• Bartlett Robinson (63) - Bewhiskered Senator
• Gene Tyburn (38) - Francis Bicknell Carpenter