The Hallelujah Trail
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original film poster by Robert McGinnis
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| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Produced by | John Sturges |
| Written by | John Gay, based on the novel by Bill Gulick |
| Starring |
Burt Lancaster Lee Remick Jim Hutton Pamela Tiffin |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Robert Surtees, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
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The Mirisch Corporation
A Mirisch-Kappa Production |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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165 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million |
| Box office | $4,000,000 |
The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin.
The film was one of several large-scale widescreen, long-form "epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like The Great Race and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre. Its running time is 2 hours, 45 minutes. The movie is part of a group, which was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in selected theaters via the oversized Super Cinerama process. Stuntman Bill Williams was killed on November 13, 1964 while performing a stunt involving a wagon going over a cliff. The scene was kept in the movie.
On October 19, 1968, three years and four months after its release, the film had its television premiere in a three-hour timeslot on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.
In the year 1867, signs that the approaching winter will be a hard one produce agitation in the burgeoning mining town of Denver, as the hard-drinking citizenry fear a shortage of whiskey. Taking advice from Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence), a local guide and seer (but only when under the influence of alcohol), the populace arrange for a mass shipment, forty wagons full of whiskey, with the Wallingham Freighting Company. The wagon train heads out, under the direction of company owner Frank Wallingham (Brian Keith), who describes himself as a "taxpayer and a good Republican".
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