Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! (1929)

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Hallelujah! was, for its time, an impressive achievement. Director King Vidor, anxious to make a "personal" project for the impersonal MGM studios, proposed to film a spiritual story set in the deep South with blacks as the main characters. The Texas-born Vidor was familiar with certain particulars… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 46 min.
Directed By
King Vidor
Written By
King Vidor
Genres
Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Classics
In Theaters
Aug 20, 1929 Wide
On DVD
Jan 10, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    The inventive director King Vidor reeceived a well-deserved Oscar nomination for making MGM's first all-black feature, shot on locations and later dubbed for sound.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    It's best looked at as an historical curiosity that gives one an idea of the African-Americans beginnings in the Hollywood movie before even the race films.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

    Vidor's gaze can be condescendingly paternal.

  • John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

    A milestone on the road that led from Stepin Fetchit to Sidney Poitier to Spike Lee...

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