The Hallelujah Trail
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Actor: Burt Lancaster, Donald Pleasence, Jim Hutton, Lee Remick, Pamela TiffinBrand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Hallelujah Trail
Movie Review: A fun flick
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1965 film got its name from the exclamation that drunks shout when they have too much to drink. It is a humorous, frequently ridiculous and therefore funny flick about what occurred when the city of Denver ran out of whiskey in 1867. A drunken visionary, the oracle, predicts that the city would be saved from this undesired thirst when 40 wagons cart crates of whiskey from the east. However, the oracle failed to see the complications that would dismantle this otherwise reasonable prediction, from groups and individuals.
Arrangements are made to ship the whiskey, but it is so unusual an enterprise that a newspaper announces the endeavor and the wrong people hear about it and get involved. These include an Indian tribe that decides to raid the wagon and steal the firewater, a group of temperance women determined to save people from devouring this drink from hell, miners from Denver who want to assure that the caravan reaches them, and the army that must help the conflicting interests of each of them. Each group sets out on its own and by chance converges during a blinding snowstorm. Each group fires shots during the storm even though they can't see a foot in front of them.
Individuals add complications to the situation. There is the colonel who served the military for 19 years and his relationship with his daughter and the temperance lady. There is the head caravan driver who wants to strike because of poor working conditions. There is the owner of the caravan who insists that every barrel of whiskey must be delivered, come what may. There is the Indian chief who agrees not to attack if he is given 20 of the 40 barrels and his sub-Indian-chief who claims that he cannot speak English and walks around with a flag bearing a white cloth. Viewers will watch wondering which of the groups and individuals will succeed.
Summary of The Hallelujah Trail
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)!Similar DVD Movies
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