{"id":1183,"date":"2006-06-19T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2021-01-16T23:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:18:38","slug":"hallelujah-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah! (1929)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Look, son: the Lord has sent an angel to show you the way.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster-695x1024.png 695w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster-87x128.png 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster-183x270.png 183w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Poster.png 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA humble cotton farmer (Daniel Haynes) is seduced by a gambling vamp (Nina Mae McKinney), then repents for his sins by becoming an itinerant preacher. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>African Americans<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Christianity<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Deep South<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Femmes Fatales<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gambling<\/a><\/li>\n<li>King Vidor Films<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this landmark all-black film &#8212; made and financed by white director King Vidor &#8212; is actually rather dull. In addition, it &#8220;established many negative black stereotypes that would become common in the white cinema&#8221;, and &#8220;was the first to contend that black people were happy living in isolation (from whites), in ignorance, and in poverty because they have religion to fall back on.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-768x575.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Religion.png 1371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the film is worth checking out for its historical status, as well as to see Nina Mae McKinney&#8217;s truly electric performance as a wily femme fatale &#8212; a &#8220;hip-swaying, sexually uninhibited tigress&#8221; who &#8220;would serve as [a] model for numerous black vamps in years to come, including those played by Dorothy Dandridge.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nina Mae McKinney as the beautiful, seductive, deceptive Chick<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-1024x763.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-1024x763.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-128x95.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-768x572.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney-363x270.png 363w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-McKinney.png 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mammy Johnson (Fannie Belle DeKnight) singing a lullaby as she rocks one of her children to sleep<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-1024x786.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"491\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-63842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-1024x786.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-300x230.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-128x98.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-768x589.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking-352x270.png 352w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/06\/Hallelujah-Rocking.png 1375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, simply for its status as the first all-black film to come out of Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0019959\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/movies2.nytimes.com\/mem\/movies\/review.html?title1=&#038;title2=Hallelujah&#038;reviewer=MORDAUNT%20HALL.&#038;v_id=21311\">NY Times Original Review <\/a> (Note how reviewer Mourdant Hall refers to this early &#8220;talkie&#8221; movie as an &#8220;audible film&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Look, son: the Lord has sent an angel to show you the way.&#8221; Synopsis: A humble cotton farmer (Daniel Haynes) is seduced by a gambling vamp (Nina Mae McKinney), then repents for his sins by becoming an itinerant preacher. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: African Americans Christianity Deep South Femmes Fatales Gambling King Vidor Films Musicals Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this landmark all-black film &#8212; made and financed by white director King Vidor &#8212; is actually rather&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1183\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63846,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/63846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}