Henry Fonda's lone sceptic holds firm against 11 angry jurors to prevent a possibly wrongful conviction.
The traumatic spirals from Henry Fonda's prison scene spin through Vertigo as well.
The best-selling book was later made into a television movie starring Henry Fonda.
The professor, who looks like a pained Henry Fonda, lectures on immigration, which is an issue for all concerned.
Blackmailing an opponent, the step that Henry Fonda rejects in The Best Man, doesn't bother Jack Stanton in Primary Colors.
During his 40-year career, Houston worked alongside acting greats including Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, John Wayne, Dirk Bogarde and Clint Eastwood.
But more than any other actor, even Henry Fonda's folksy "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), Day-Lewis' version seems like a likable, three-dimensional human being.
In The Best Man, a 1964 adaptation of Gore Vidal's play, Henry Fonda is the thoughtful but philandering candidate whose main rival is the unscrupulous Cliff Robertson.
Which is precisely what happens to the Presidents played by Henry Fonda in Fail-Safe and Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove, both released the same year as The Best Man.
He appeared in more than 100 movies in mostly supporting roles from the early 1940s, playing opposite stars including Henry Fonda, John Wayne, James Garner, Elvis Presley and Dan Aykroyd.
Shuffling in the footsteps of Henry Fonda, Raymond Massey, and many others, Daniel Day-Lewis makes a striking Lincoln amused and agonized, instinctively concerned for others yet prone to withdraw into the shell of his own thoughts.
Watching him at work, in the days leading up to the landing, I was reminded of Henry Fonda in one of his early Westerns: squinting at the horizon and chewing over his options while the townsfolk galloped off in a dozen different directions.
There are poised performances, notably that of the pensive engineer (Sergei Makovetsky) who, propelled by conscience, follows in the tracks of Henry Fonda, but there is also a fair dose of grandstanding, not helped by the lengthy, self-dramatizing speeches with which many of the men are encumbered.
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