THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL (1965) ¢ ¢
D: John Sturges
Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton,
Brian Keith, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence,
Dub Taylor, Martin Landau, John Anderson
A broadly played western comedy in which a cavalry regiment, a gang of thirsty miners, a women's temperance group, a bunch of Irish teamsters and an army of Indians all converge on 40 wagons loaded with booze. A fine cast, a boisterous Elmer Bernstein score and plenty of comic potential, but a textbook example of Hollywood throwing money at everything except a decent script. Everybody tries hard, but it's just never funny enough to justify a running time of two hours and 45 minutes.
Pamela Tiffin
(1942-2020)
