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The Hallelujah Trail
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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence
Directed By: John Sturges
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792849247
Format: Anamorphic
ISBN: 0792849248
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2001-03-20
Running Time: 165
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Acclaimed director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) turns the legends of the West upside down in this rip-roaring western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a droughtof whiskeyand had to have fortywagonloads imported through very harshand very thirstyterritory! Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Burt Lancaster and Martin Landau team with OscarÂ(r) nominee** Lee Remick inthis beautifully filmed epic adventure that "wins both laughs and thrills" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Also starring Jim Hutton, Brian Keith and Donald Pleasence, this irreverent and literally dry look at frontier life is "possibly the funniest western ever made" (Los Angeles Times)!
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Summary: Hallelujah Trail
Comment: Burt Lancaster is at his best in this comedy about whiskey and the temperance movement. I have watched this movie a dozen times and still laugh at the story line and all the aspects brought to the final ending. Mr. Lancaster plays a straight laced Colonel just trying to do his job, but the supporting cast such as Jim Hutton make his life unbearable. This is a family movie all can enjoy, and a laugh a minute.
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Summary: WATCH OUT FOR QUICKSAND BOTTOMS!
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This movie was taken from the 1964 Doubleday DD hardcover western novel THE HALLELUJAH TRAIN written by Bill Gulick. Mr. Gulick was a well known writer to those of us that read and enjoy print westerns. He also wrote other westerns such as TREASURE IN HELL'S CANYON, and the trilogy of the Nez Perces War: DISTANT TRAILS 1805-1836, GATHERING STORM 1837-1868, AND LOST WALLOWA 1868-1879. Most of his westerns were of a more serious nature but every once in a while he wrote one such as THE HALLELUJAH TRAIN. The book was released years later in paperback as THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL, with some people feeling the movie version was an overall improvement of the book.
I've seen the movie several times down through the years, having a copy of the DVD now, and still enjoy seeing it every now and then. As long as the viewer can enjoy a somewhat atypical 'western' it is well worth watching, if for no other reasons than good performances by the well stocked cast members, plus the fact that several of the actors are now dead. The movie also is representative of what the movie production companies were releasing in the mid to late 1960s.
If a viewer enjoys good acting, western motifs, and light satire with a touch of history, then this movie will rest easy with them.
Warning: do not camp overnight at Quicksand Bottoms.
Semper Fi.
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Summary: What a difference 40 years makes
Comment: I first saw this movie back in the mid '60s when I was about 14 and thought it was a great movie. I recently purchased it on DVD and looked forward to enjoying it again. Unfortunately, like some wine this movie didn't age well. While there were some amusing spots (Donald Pleasance's performance)I found a great deal of the movie to be rather corny and ham handed. It was amusing to view again after forty years or so but for me it's not a keeper.
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Summary: Just a clean fun western movie
Comment: I know zero people who have seen this funny western movie. Too bad. It's not all that sophisticated, and it has some non-PC characterizations. But if your object is watching a movie just to have fun, this one has lots of it. The oracle stole the show just as cleanly as the first time I saw this film. The DVD is high-quality.
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Summary: Good movie
Comment: This was one of my husband's favorite old movies and I didn't remember seeing it. So I ordered it for him and we watched it the other night. It was very good.
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