FREE: KING VIDOR's HALLELUJAH

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Hallelujah is a cinematic milestone: the first all-black feature from a major studio and famed director King Vidor's (The Champ, The Big Parade) first talkie. But the film surpasses its historical significance, telling a story of such profound dignity and understanding that is as fresh and moving as the day it premiered.

Featuring a largely unknown cast and infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues and jazz (Irving Berlin provided two songs for the production), Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes), a poor cotton farmer. He succumbs to the temptations of Chick (Nina Mae McKinney), a mercenary honky-tonk girl, finds salvation in religion, and falls again when his obsession for Chick overpowers his better self. Love, loss, passion, redemption and brilliant moviemaking, Hallelujah has it all.

PS: This 100 minute film is in BLACK & WHITE. It was originally released in 1929, but with supplemental material compilation was re-released in 2006 by Turner Entertainment Company.material