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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 13991
Released: March 20, 2001 |
| Our Price: $2.25 |
| Used Price: $1.92 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Acclaimed director John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) turns the legends of the West upside down in this rip-roaring western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a droughtof whiskeyand had to have fortywagonloads imported through very harshand very thirstyterritory! Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Burt Lancaster and Martin Landau team with OscarÂ(r) nominee** Lee Remick inthis beautifully filmed epic adventure that "wins both laughs and thrills" (The Hollywood Reporter)! Also starring Jim Hutton, Brian Keith and Donald Pleasence, this irreverent and literally dry look at frontier life is "possibly the funniest western ever made" (Los Angeles Times)!
The Hallelujah Trail Reviews:
Good Movie, Bad DVD 
2009-09-23 - The Hallelujah Trail deserved better than this. The original movie was filmed amid the gorgeous summer New Mexico scenery in Ultra-Panavision 70 on 70mm film which should have afforded anyone wishing to make a DVD transfer the opportunity to produce an exceptional product, right? Wrong!
The letterboxed image is further reduced within the frame on the 16:9 screen (a rectangle within a rectangle); the picture is grainy, contrasty, and generally all around sucks. I was so upset at what I was seeing that I didn't even notice if the sound was any good or not.
Rent it if you must watch it, but don't waste your money purchasing it.
DVD Review (NON Anamorphic) 
2009-09-11 - As others have mentioned there are artifacts on the DVD transfer. Plus ..... this DVD is NOT Anamorphic as stated. My copy is 4x3 LETTERBOX with either 2.20 or 2.35 screen format.
Studios still need to release a proper transfer, because mine being LETTERBOXED I have to Zoom which magnifies the image to fill the 52" WS LCD so there are less black bars top and bottom. This means I see the artifacts even more in Zoom mode ... ;-)
Well at least I have the movie !! Hope this review helps others !!
Great Movie--Poor Quality DVD 
2009-08-17 - When this movie came out it was rumored around Florida State University that it was written in a week as a bet among friends; the author claimed he could write a novel in a week. He did it and won $100.00 in the bet. I recently saw this for the third time, the first in a theater. I said from the beginning the author deserved his prize.
I have remembered this movie, and recommended it, for 43 years. I still recommend it. The acting is good, as you would expect, and it is a movie suitable for the whole family. Thid movie will teach you nothing about history or politics, it has no social value to promote--not even abstinence. What it will do is make you laugh.
Enjoy it.
Movies that new ones can not compare with 
2009-04-25 - This Movie has it all! Great cast, wonderful scenes and
wardrobe. Movies of yester-year... Sure miss them today.
Hallelujah!
2009-04-12 - Will probably get a lot of hate mail, but in my humble opinion, this is the funniest western comedy ever made. I'll even go as far as saying, it's funnier than Blazing Saddles (which, I also liked)!
Check it out yourself, you'll see...
