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Release Date: 1965

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Helen Kleeb, Lee Remick, Whit Bissell, Tom Stern, Donald Pleasence, Dub Taylor, John Anderson, Brian Keith, Martin Landau ...MORE

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Helen Kleeb, Lee Remick, Whit Bissell, Tom Stern, Donald Pleasence, Dub Taylor, John Anderson, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Robert J. Wilke ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy Western, Action/Adventure, Western, Comedy, Satire

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others. The film is presented in a pseudo-documentary style, with a serious, tongue-in-cheek narrator (John Dehner) providing historical background and context, and periodically interrupting the story to point out animated charts illustrating strategic positions of various groups. "Buffalo were feeding ravenously. Beaver were damming and storing with strange vigor. Horses and dogs were becoming shaggy-haired as never... MORE

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others. The film is presented in a pseudo-documentary style, with a serious, tongue-in-cheek narrator (John Dehner) providing historical background and context, and periodically interrupting the story to point out animated charts illustrating strategic positions of various groups. "Buffalo were feeding ravenously. Beaver were damming and storing with strange vigor. Horses and dogs were becoming shaggy-haired as never before. And it could be sensed in the booming, bustling mining town of Denver. Most historians agree that the events leading to the Battle of Whiskey Hills and the subsequent disaster at Quicksand Bottoms began here in Denver at a miners' meeting..." In the year 1867, signs that the approaching winter will be a hard one produce agitation in the burgeoning mining town of Denver, Colorado, 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 LESS