The Hallelujah Trail
The formidable action director John Sturges added laughs to his bag of tricks with this old west spoof starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Remick. Lancaster plays a Cavalry man pressed into escorting a reformist firebrand played by Remick who’s determined to stop delivery of a shipment of whiskey to Denver, home to a sizable crew of thirsty miners. Cinematographer Robert Surtees filmed the show in Ultra Panavision 70 making the 2 hour and 45 minute film a true epic.
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Michael Schlesinger is widely acknowledged as the dean of classic film distributors, having worked for more than 25 years at MGM, Paramount and Sony, keeping hundreds of vintage movies in theatrical release (and later DVD), and instigating the restoration of many more, including the completion of Orson Welles' 1942 documentary It's All True some 50 years later. Behind the camera, he wrote and produced the American version of Godzilla 2000, co-produced such Larry Blamire parodies as The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and Dark and Stormy Night, and has written, produced and directed several short films featuring the faux-1930s comedy team of Biffle and Shooster. No power on Earth will ever convince him that It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is not the Greatest. Movie. Ever.
Bought the Blu after seeing your TFH thingie. Did not know that the folks at Kino (whom I dearly love) had put this out. Beautiful print, and your commentary was loads of fun. Three things: I love Lancaster’s send-up of his own screen image; I also love Pleasence’s NOW IT SEE IT! with choir, of course; and a question: if this was supposed to be forty wagons of whiskey, how come several wagons are Champagne? Okay, it’s for the gag, but no mention of this came anywhere else in the picture. Least, I don’t think so. Darn. I’ll have to watch it again. Life is so hard. Have had this on the old MGM DVD from many Moon Come Choctaw, but this is fantastic. Thanks for clueing me in to it! By the way, I like TEXAS ACROSS THE RIVER. Have that on Blu, too. Got it on sale from Kino. We Peaceful Indian. Go home now.