The Hallelujah Trail Details

The Hallelujah Trail

THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is a slapstick comedy starring Burt Lancaster as cavalry officer Col. Thadeus Gearhart, set just before the winter of 1867, when the boomtown of Denver realizes it's almost run out of whiskey. The perenially drunken Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence) hatches a plan to bring a wagon train of whiskey to Denver before winter sets in. Newspaper editor Hobbs wires temperance leader Cora Massingale (Lee Remick) about the shipment, and a group of Sioux Indians also takes an interest in the booze. Col. Gearheart leads a company assigned to protect the temperance contingent, which intends to head off the train, and Capt. Slater (Jim Hutton) leads another, assigned to protect the train. A Denver citizens group, led by Clayton Howell (Dub Taylor), is also headed for the train, not to mention the Sioux. When the Teamsters suddenly stage a sit-down strike, the train is left wide open to attack. This odd little film, based on the novel by Bill Gulick, features a star-studded cast and a score by the great Elmer Bernstein.

Starring	Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau, Jim Hutton, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Pamela Tiffin, James Burke, Tom Stern, Bob Wilke
Director	John Sturges
Studio	MGM ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 20 mins
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure
Language	DVD: English
Dubbed	French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired	English, German
Subtitles	DVD: French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish
Released	DVD: 25 Nov 2002 Production year: 1965
Format	DVD