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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a american film of genre Romantic comedy directed by Lewis Milestone released in USA on 3 february 1933 with Al Jolson

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
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Released in USA 3 february 1933
Length 1h22
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Romantic comedy,    Musical,    Romance
Rating68% 3.4442953.4442953.4442953.4442953.444295

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American Pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression.

The film stars Al Jolson as Bumper, a popular New York tramp, and both romanticizes and satirizes the hobo lifestyle into which many people were forced by the economic conditions of the time. It is noted for its heavy leftist overtones and freewheeling style. Amongst its supporting cast were Frank Morgan, silent comedian Harry Langdon and Chester Conklin of the Keystone Kops. Morgan, who would later play the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz uncannily foreshadows a famous line in the later film when he says to Al Jolson, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home." Jolson, known for his history of supporting black entertainment, hired black vaudevillian Edgar Connor to play his buddy.

Synopsis

Un balayeur communiste dénonce en chantant "ces riches tire-au-flanc qui vivent sur le dos des travailleurs".

Actors

Al Jolson

(Bumper)Frank Morgan

(Mayor John Hastings)Madge Evans

(June Marcher)Harry Langdon
Chester Conklin

(Sunday)
And :
Tyler Brooke
Tammany Young
Bert Roach
Dorothea Wolbert
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