Old Mr. Rogers and Young Mr. Lincoln

The franchise seedbed of a great film

The Criterion Channel is running a “Young Mr. Ford” program, which includes one of my favorite movies, and also three I hadn’t seen before but had always wanted to: the ones John Ford made with Will Rogers, Doctor Bull, Judge Priest, and Steamboat ‘Round the Bend.

Rogers I barely know (and neither do most souls living, I guess) but for his famous cornbal…