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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, Musical

Music director
  
Richard Rodgers

Country
  
United States

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Director
  
Lewis Milestone

Initial DVD release
  
February 5, 2002

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Hallelujah, Im a Bum (film) movie poster

Release date
  
February 3, 1933 (1933-02-03)

Writer
  
Ben Hecht (original story), S.N. Behrman (adaptation)

Cast
  
Al Jolson
(Bumper),
Madge Evans
(June Marcher),
Frank Morgan
(Mayor John Hastings),
Harry Langdon
(Egghead),
Chester Conklin
(Sunday),
Tyler Brooke
(Mayor's Secretary)

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,
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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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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 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.

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Cast

  • Al Jolson as Bumper
  • Madge Evans as June Marcher
  • Frank Morgan as Mayor John Hastings
  • Harry Langdon as Egghead
  • Chester Conklin as Sunday
  • Tyler Brooke as Mayor's Secretary
  • Tammany Young as Orlando
  • Bert Roach as John
  • Edgar Connor as Acorn
  • Dorothea Wolbert as Apple Mary
  • Louise Carver as Ma Sunday

    • Music

    The music was composed by Richard Rodgers and the lyrics by Lorenz Hart. The score includes the jazz standard "You Are Too Beautiful", which is played several times throughout the movie.

    The complete list of musical numbers in the film is:

  • "I Gotta Get Back to New York"
  • "My Pal Bumper"
  • "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum"
  • "Laying the Cornerstone"
  • "Sleeping Beauty" (dropped before the film was released)
  • "Dear June"
  • "Bumper Found a Grand"
  • "What Do You Want With Money?"
  • "Kangaroo Court"
  • "I'd Do It Again"
  • "You Are Too Beautiful"

    • References

    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film) Wikipedia
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