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The Hallelujah Trail
on DVD (1965)
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| 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: |
140 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
Mixed favourites |
| Genres: |
Action/Adventure |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English, German |
| Subtitles: |
French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Spanish |
| Released: |
25/11/2002
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Brief synopsis of 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.
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Radio Times
Beleaguered cavalry officer Burt Lancaster is under attack from a bizarre collection of pressure groups in this entertaining comedy western. Lee Remick leads a brigade of temperance women who are trying to stop a shipment of whiskey from reaching Denver, while local Indian tribesmen are equally eager to divert the barrels. Director John Sturges is free with the wagon-trail clichés, not always to great effect, but the film's still worth a look, if only for Martin Landau's performance as the deadpan Chief Walks-Stooped-Over.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Absurdly inflated, prolonged, uninventive comedy Western with poor narrative grip; all dressed up and nowhere to go.
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