| | Hallelujah by Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae Mckinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle Deknight, A. Dorian Otvos, Marian Ainslee, Ransom Rideout, Richard Schayer, Wanda Tuchock, King Vidor, Fannie Bell Deknight, directed by King Vidor, Roy Mack Dvd, Published 2006 by Warner Home Video Closed-Captioned, Color, Dvd-Video, Ntsc, Subtitled ISBN-13: 978-1-4198-1712-0, ISBN: 1-4198-1712-4
"Made in 1929, Hallelujah is an artifact of no small historical significance: the first major studio movie with an all-black cast and a white director (the esteemed King Vidor), it was also one of the earliest "talkies" after the silent film era. But it also has considerable artistic merit; simply put, Hallelujah is damned entertaining. Sure, the story isn't exactly subtle, a morality tale chronicling the tribulations of Zeke (Daniel L. ..."
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