Film · MGM · 1929
Pass it on
Hallelujah
59Watch it awake.
The faith is real, and the studio still kept this cast out of the other films.
The review
Vidor got an all-Black cast because that was the way he got the picture made. A cotton farmer is pulled between a preacher's life and a woman who is not safe for him. The songs are spirituals and blues. The faith is not a joke. A house can watch it. It was not a top gross.
The cast is Black because the studio kept them out of the other pictures. Say that straight. I wasn't going to let the spirituals cover the separation. The woman is a real pull against the preaching. The studio's rule sits on the film whether the story names it or not. Know that before you file it as only a musical.
Journal
Keep Hallelujah in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.
The glance
Stewardship is the thin one.
What is left for the people who come after — a place, a craft, a name?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
The Sound of Music
78 instead of 59
The Sound of Music is still a musical film, and it scores 78 instead of 59. What you gain is household: A marriage in earnest, and seven children who are the stake of the last reel.
The eight
- 7Industry
He is a cotton farmer, and that work is the life he may leave.
- 5Household
A preacher's life and a woman who is not safe are the split.
- 7Piety
The faith is not a joke, and the songs are spirituals and blues.
- 5Courage
He is pulled toward a woman the film says is not safe for him.
- 6Republic
The studio kept this Black cast out of the other pictures.
- 5Temperance
A woman who is not safe is set against the preacher's life.
- 8Truth
An all-Black cast was the only way Vidor got the film made.
- 4Stewardship
The songs remain inside the separation the studio enforced.
Where to watch
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