Release Date: Jun 23, 1965 Wide
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In The Hallelujah Trail, Lee Remick plays temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who is determined to halt a shipment of whiskey headed for Denver. The shipment is being escorted by the US cavalry, under the guidance of Col. Thadeus Gearhardt (Burt Lancaster). As the Denver miners thirstily await the precious booze, Gearhardt must fend off not only Cora and her minions, but a bibulous tribe of Sioux warriors, headed by Chief Walks-Stooped-Over (Martin Landau)-not to mention an outsized
Jun 23, 1965 Wide
Mar 20, 2001
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Hung out to dry with nowhere to go but in quicksand.
Satirical and funny! I'd become so accustomed to Burt Lancaster in serious dramatic roles that his brilliantly subtle humor took me by surprise. *NOTE: Watch for a very thin Donald Pleasence as the prognosticating 'Oracle'.
February 3, 2009
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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIN is a first class western comedy about a army of temperance women that want to destroy a wagon train of liquor being escorted to thirsty miners before a chilly winter sets in. Burt Lancaster is hilarious as the beleaguered cavalry officer.
November 18, 2009
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