Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression.
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Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
Written by | S.N. Behrman |
Story by | Ben Hecht |
Starring | Al Jolson Madge Evans Frank Morgan |
Cinematography | Lucien N. Andriot |
Edited by | Duncan Mansfield |
Music by | Richard Rodgers |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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. Among the production's supporting cast are Frank Morgan, silent comedian Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin of the Keystone Cops, and vaudevillian Edgar Connor.[1] Morgan, who portrays the Wizard in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz, foreshadows a line in the later film when he says to Al Jolson, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home".