The Hallelujah Trail
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The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western epic mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin. It was based on the book of the same title (originally released as "The Hallelujah Train") by Bill Gulick in 1963.[4]
| The Hallelujah Trail | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical poster by Robert McGinnis | |
| Directed by | John Sturges |
| Screenplay by | John Gay |
| Based on | the novel by Bill Gulick |
| Produced by | John Sturges |
| Starring | Burt Lancaster Lee Remick Jim Hutton Pamela Tiffin Donald Pleasence Brian Keith Martin Landau |
| Cinematography | Robert Surtees, A.S.C. |
| Edited by | Ferris Webster |
| Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production companies | The Mirisch Corporation A Mirisch-Kappa Production |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 165 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $7 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $4,000,000[3] |
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 film is part of a group, which were filmed in Ultra Panavision 70 and presented in selected theaters via the oversized Super Cinerama process.[5] Stuntman Bill Williams was killed on November 13, 1964, while performing a stunt involving a wagon going over a cliff.[6] 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.[7][8]