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Hallelujah
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels / 9711 feet
Directed by King Vidor
Cast: Daniel L. Haynes [Zeke], Nina Mae McKinney [Chick], William E. Fountaine [‘Hot Shot’], Harry Gray [parson], Fannie Belle de Knight [Mammy], Everett McGarrity [‘Spunk’], Victoria Spivey [Missy Rose], Milton Dickerson [Johnson child], Robert Couch [Johnson child], Walter Tait [Johnson child], Dixie Jubilee Singers
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corporation (Loew’s, Incorporated) production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Wanda Tuchock, with dialogue by Ransom Rideout, from an adaptation treatment by Richard Schayer of a screen story by King Vidor. Art direction by Cedric Gibbons. Wardrobe design by Henrietta Frazer. Songs “Waiting at the End of the Road” and “Swanee Shuffle” by Irving Berlin. Assistant directors, Robert A. Golden and Harold Garrison. Cinematography by Gordon Avil. Sound recording engineer, Douglas Shearer. Film editors, Hugh Wynn and Anson Stevenson. Intertitles written by Marian Ainslee. / © 3 September 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP652]. Released 20 August 1929. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Vidor’s first sound film. / Full-sound film. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version (at 6579 feet) by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. [?] Everson-American p. ? lists the film as a part-talkie.
Drama: Musical.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: African-Americans - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 8 December 2009.
References: Bardèche-History pp. 312, 313, 314, 324, 326, 358; Barnard-Argentine p. 116; Bohn-Light pp. xxv, 110, 183, 190; Dowd-Vidor pp. 48, 98-108, 121, 123, 129, 141, 147, 150i, 189, 197, 200, 223, 279, 281, 290; Everson-American pp. 338, 345, 346; Leish-Cinema pp. 68, 69; Limbacher-Feature p. 102; Null-Black pp. 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 43; Sarris-Sternberg pp. 23, 24; Sklar-Movie p. 155 : Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1 December 1929, p. 7E : Documentary-Cram : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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