Hallelujah
(1929) American
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 Corporation [Loew’s, Incorporated] production; distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Wanda Tuchock, with dialogue by Ransom Rideout, from a treatment by Richard Schayer of a 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. Intertitles by Marian Ainslee. Edited by Hugh Wynn and Anson Stevenson. / © 3 September 1929 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation [LP652]. Released 20 August 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / Vidor’s first sound film. / Full-sound film. The film was also released in a silent version at 6579 feet. [?] Everson-American p. ? lists the film as a part-talkie.

Drama: Musical.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: African-Americans - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 31 August 2007.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 312, 313, 314, 324, 326, 358; 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 : Documentary-Cram : Website-AFI.

Home Video: DVD.