The Hallelujah Trail
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Movie Reviews of The Hallelujah Trail
Movie Review: Janelso
Summary: 2 Stars
A great movie, and a classic comedy. I saw this in the theaters when it was new, enjoyed it then and now. My only complaint is that the the the picture quality is extremely bad, with obvious pixilation. When the camera pans the picture is nearly unwatchable. Diagonal lines turn into stair stepped pixels that remind me of old DOS computer graphics. This is the worst example of DVD movies that I have ever seen.Movie Review: A DVD MGM cannot be proud of!
Summary: 1 Stars
What a bad looking DVD! I completely agree with the two negative reviewers. MGM has used exactly the same transfer as for the TEN year old Laser Disc; not one of the millions of white speckles has been erased! This time they even forgot to put in the still frame during the overture! It's really boring to look at a black screen - in the old days we could watch a nicely lit curtain at least. On the Laser Disc the aspect ratio was not correct, and this DVD is just as misframed. "The Hallelujah Trail" was shot in ULTRA Panavision (anamorphic 70 mm), which means that the aspect ratio should be 2.75:1, just as the newly released DVD's of "Ben-Hur" and "the Greatest Story Ever Told". In other words: lots of picture information is still missing on the sides. Actually the only improvements on the DVD are slightly better sharpness and less chroma noise, which is to be expected from all DVD's. I'm very grateful to MGM for releasing such a lot of old classics these days, but if the results will look like this dud, they better slow down their output and rather concentrate on careful quality control. Please give us a new "Hallelujah Trail"! It's not a masterpiece, but it deserves far better than this!Movie Review: Poor Quaility From MGM
Summary: 1 Stars
I was looking forward to seeing one of my favorite western films on widescreen DVD for the first time. How disapointing! The Hallelujah trail was full of white spots(film burns) and the picture in spots would shimmer so much that it was almost unwatchable. I would expect this kind of DVD transfer and quality from Good Times Video and other cheap companies, but not MGM. They should have taken the time to find a good quality copy of the film to transfer or touched up the master to preserve this classic western film. Hopefully they someday release a restored DVD version. I wouldn't recommend this DVD version to anyone. The film deserves five stars, but this DVD version only gets one star due to widescreen.Movie Review: Terrible DVD Transfer
Summary: 1 Stars
MGM has made the decision to offer this presentation of Hallelujah Trail on one side (two layers) of a DVD disc, requiring more compression of the video image than we normally see on higher quality DVD's. This has resulted in a DVD that is positively painful to watch due to digital artifacts. MGM should be embarrased about releaseing such an inferior product.Movie Review: Very poor picture quality ruins this DVD
Summary: 1 Stars
This release of a classic big event comedy/western is ruined by a simply awful transfer to DVD. The picture quality as seen line-doubled on my Pioneer Elite 700 HD set is nearly unwatchable. I hope MGM will try again with a goal of creating a much better transfer. This is one of the worst-looking DVDs I have seen.Too bad because the movie is enjoyable.