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Hallelujah [videorecording (DVD)].

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Turner Entertainment : distributed by Warner Home Video, c2006.

Blacks -- Drama.

Gambling -- Drama.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

King Vidor's Hallelujah [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1929.

At head of title: King Vidor's.

Special features: Commentary by Black Cultural Scholars Donald Bogle and Avery Clayton ; 2 vintage musical shorts featuring the Nicholas Brothers and Hallelujah co-star Nina Mae McKinney: Pie, pie blackbird featuring Eubie Blake and band and The black network ; theatrical trailer.

Standard version. Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

A selection of the National Film Registry, 2008.

In English (mono) with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.

Music, Irving Berlin ; scenario by Wanda Tuchock ; story and direction by King Vidor.

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

"Hallelujah is a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's (The Champ, The Big Parade) first talkie. But the film surpasses its historical significance, telling a story of such profound dignity and understanding that it as fresh and moving as the day it premiered. Featuring a largely unknown cast and infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues and jazz (Irving Berlin provided two songs for the production), Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes), a poor cotton farmer. He succumbs to the temptations of Chick (Nina Mae McKinney), a mercenary honky-tonk girl, finds salvation in religion, and falls again when his obsession for Chick overpowers his better self. Love, loss, passion, redemption and brilliant moviemaking: Hallelujah has it all."--Container.

Religious films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Vidor, King, 1894-1982.

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.

Haynes, Daniel L., d. 1954.

McKinney, Nina Mae, 1913-1967.

Fountaine, William.

Gray, Harry, actor.

DeKnight, Fanny Belle.

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