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Director:
Writers:
William Gulick (novel)
John Gay (screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 June 1965 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
See How The West Was Fun! more
Plot:
A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Composer Elmer Bernstein Dies at 82
 (From IMDb News. 19 August 2004)

Composer Elmer Bernstein Dies at 82
 (From IMDb News. 18 August 2004)

User Comments:
Too long, but with great bits more (32 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Burt Lancaster ... Col. Thaddeus Gearhart
Lee Remick ... Cora Templeton Massingale
Jim Hutton ... Capt. Paul Slater
Pamela Tiffin ... Louise Gearhart

Donald Pleasence ... 'Oracle' Jones
Brian Keith ... Frank Wallingham

Martin Landau ... Chief Walks-Stooped-Over
John Anderson ... Sgt. Buell
Tom Stern ... Kevin O'Flaherty

Robert J. Wilke ... Chief Five Barrels
Dub Taylor ... Clayton Howell
Whit Bissell ... Hobbs
Helen Kleeb ... Henrietta

Val Avery ... Denver bartender
Noam Pitlik ... Interpreter
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
John Sturges' The Hallelujah Trail (UK) (complete title) (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
165 min | 156 min (TCM print) | USA:146 min (Cinemax) | West Germany:134 min (cut version)
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Burt Lancaster was forced by United Artists to make four films for $150,000 a picture in the 1960s: The Young Savages (1961), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Train (1964) and The Hallelujah Trail (1965) rather than his normal fee of $750,000, because of cost overruns at his production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, for which he was personally responsible. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Col. Gearhart comes back to his shave after confronting Cora in her bath the trooper acting as barber puts shaving soap in selected spots on his face. When they go to a full face shot of the Col. his chin is fully lathered and then the lather is only in selected spots again as they cut back to the side view. more
Quotes:
Capt. Paul Slater: Protect both rears simultaneously! more

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Too long, but with great bits, 15 August 2004
8/10
Author: proffate from Texas

From the era of "epic" comedies like The Great Race and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Hallelujah Trail was the entry in the western category. Lots of funny stuff, but just too long to sustain the hilarity.

A favorite bit concerns temperance leader Lee Remick unsuccessfully trying to convince cavalry officer Burt Lancaster of the rightness of her cause:

LEE: Three of the women in my movement have lost their husbands to alcohol. The men literally drank themselves to death!

BURT: One can only wonder why.

There are enough gems like this to make it worth watching, but not up to the standards of Blazing Saddles or Support Your Local Sheriff.

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