Hallelujah Trail

Pros: A really fun movie you won't forget

Cons: absolutely nothing

Review: This is one of the funniest westerns ever made. With Burt Lancaster and Jim Hutton trying to take a wagon train full of liquor through Indian territory and a woman's temperance movement trying to stop them.
Lee Remick leads the women against the...

Pros: A great cast: Burt Lancaster, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasance, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Martin Landau. A very, very funny western/comedy.

Cons: Nearly three-hours long.

Review: "The Hallelujah Trail," a star-packed 1965 comedy-western, has some huge laughs, but is overly long at just under three hours. The VHS version is on two videos tapes.

The length isn't a surprise, considering this is a film directed...

Pros: Fine ensemble work. Stunning location photography. Elmer Bernstein's rousing score.

Cons: Some humor quite dated. May be too leisurely paced for some modern viewers.

The Bottom Line: John Sturges spoofs himself and the epic Western in this lushly photographed and well performed comedy with a crackerjack cast.

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