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King Vidor's Hallelujah

Call Number

  • DVD MUSICAL (CEN)

Edition

Standard version.

Performers

Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight.

Publication Information

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2006.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This motion picture was a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's first talkie. Featuring a largely unknown cast and infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. He succumbs to the temptations of Chick, a mercenary honky-tonk girl, finds salvation in religion, and falls again when his obsession for Chick overpowers his better self.

Notes

DVD format ; Dolby digital mono.

Videodisc release of the 1929 motion picture.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Not rated.

In English with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish.

Subjects

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