Hallelujah
Daniel Haynes stars as a black laborer who turns to religion after experiencing a family tragedy.
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- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.37:1
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 27, 2013
- Originally Released: 1929
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Daniel L. Haynes & Nina Mae McKinney | |
| Performer: | Victoria Spivey, William Fountaine & Everett McGarrity | |
| Directed by | King Vidor | |
| Edited by | Hugh Wynn | |
| Music by | Irving Berlin | |
| Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons | |
| Produced by | King Vidor | |
| Director of Photography: | Gordon Avil |
Entertainment Reviews:
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[What] follows: a plot which is jerky, muddy, full of sounds one expects from senile and ailing phonograph records.
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The New Masses
A most impressive audible film.
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New York Times
Rating: B+ --
The inventive director King Vidor reeceived a well-deserved Oscar nomination for making MGM's first all-black feature, shot on locations and later dubbed for sound.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
It is good! And Mr. King Vidor and the M. G. M. Studios are to be commended for their courage in affording BLACK TALENT an opportunity to portray its ability before a misinformed public in HALLELUJAH!
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California Eagle
A milestone on the road that led from Stepin Fetchit to Sidney Poitier to Spike Lee...
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah one of the best films of the year.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Vidor elicited performances from the group as good as any you might see in a seasoned troupe. Even today, more than half a century later, this film is not dated.
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TV Guide
Description by OLDIES.com:
Hallelujah is a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's first talkie. But the film surpasses its historical significance, telling a story of profound dignity and understanding that it as fresh and moving as the day it premiered.
Featuring a largely unknown cast and infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues and jazz (Irving Berlin provided two songs for the production), Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes), a poor cotton farmer. He succumbs to the temptations with Chick (Nina Mae McKinney), a mercenary honky-tonk girl, finds salvation in religion, and falls again when his obsession for Chick overpowers his better self.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 32,765
- UPC: 883316860175
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