Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression.

Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
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Directed byLewis Milestone
Written byS.N. Behrman
Story byBen Hecht
StarringAl Jolson
Madge Evans
Frank Morgan
CinematographyLucien N. Andriot
Edited byDuncan Mansfield
Music byRichard Rodgers
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • February 3, 1933 (1933-02-03)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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. Among the production's supporting cast are Frank Morgan, silent comedian Harry Langdon, Chester Conklin of the Keystone Cops, and vaudevillian Edgar Connor. Morgan, who portrays the Wizard in the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz, foreshadows a line in the later film when he says to Al Jolson, "There's no place like home, there's no place like home".

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