About this title: Al Jolson's "comeback" picture Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an offbeat Depression-era concoction with script by Ben Hecht and S.N. Behrmann and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Jolson plays a genial hobo who wanders happily around Central Park, neither seeking nor accepting honest employment. He is imbued with a sense of responsibility when he rescues pretty Madge Evans from committing suicide. Evans, suffering from amnesia, falls in love with Jolson, completely forgetting her "regular" beau, mayor Frank Morgan. When she regains her memory she heads back to Morgan, leaving ...
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Format: DVD
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
UPC:027616873002
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
DVD region: 1
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Date: 02/05/2002
UPC:027616873002
Description: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin. New. 1933 Run time: 83. Buy with confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
"A very well ballanced bitter comedy that is delivering an allways opportune humanitarian message. The pure heart of a tramp who lives in defiance of wealth as a matter of principal but is willing to move heaven an earth so as to offer an easy living to the woman he loves. The movie makes a hint of the classical character of Charles Chaplin. Madge Evans is delightful, but in the same time used by the script-writer to express a hint of misogynism, that in turn is not the pivotal message of the movie and therefore this doesn't affect the overall impression. I love this movie!"
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