Hallelujah! (1929)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: King Vidor

Writers: King Vidor, Wanda Tuchock, Ransom Rideout, Richard Schayer

Cinematographer: Gordon Avil

Cast: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey

Vidor’s arrestingly photographed and oft brilliant if occasionally vaguely camp though never less than thoroughly entertaining film follows the ups and downs of Zeke, a cotton farmer in the deep south with an eye for the ladies who, after accidentally killing his brother when cheated out of a year’s income by a pair of confidence tricksters, becomes a preacher, and takes to the rails to spread the word of god; but, unfortunately for all concerned, the devil is not yet done with him. Iain.Stott