Hallelujah! (1929)

Directors

King Vidor

Cast

Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, William Allen Garrison, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait

The story

thumb|thumbtime=31|Hallelujah (1929)|left Zeke Johnson is an African-American sharecropper who farms cotton for a living with his mother, Mammy; his father, Pappy; his brother, Spunk; Spunk's wife, Missy Rose; and Spunk's and Missy's three young boys in the American South. Pappy is an informal preacher in their broader community. One night during the harvest, two of the Johnsons' neighbors (who already have several children) come over to their farm to be married by Pappy.

Genres

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