The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin.

The film was one of several large-scale widescreen, long-form "epic" comedies produced in the 1960s, much like The Great Race and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, combined with the epic grandeur of the Western genre. Its running time is 2 hours, 45 minutes. The movie is part of a group, which was filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in selected theaters via the oversized Super Cinerama process. Stuntman Bill Williams was killed on November 13, 1964 while performing a stunt involving a wagon going over a cliff. The scene was kept in the movie.

On October 19, 1968, three years and four months after its release, the film had its television premiere in a three-hour timeslot on NBC Saturday Night at the Movies.

Synopsis

1867, la disette d'alcool menace la cité de Denver, Colorado. Chaque habitant de la ville pense que l’hiver sera rude et risque d'empêcher l'arrivée d'un convoi de quarante fourgons avec six cents barils de whisky et de champagne. Les Sioux guettent, le long de la piste Hallelujah, le convoi en provenance de Julesburg, tandis que les dames de la Ligue de Tempérance, avec à leur tête Cora Templeton Massingale, entendent s'opposer à l'arrivée de l'alcool. À la tête du convoi, se trouve Frank Wallingham sous la protection du détachement de cavalerie du capitaine Paul Slater.

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