Hallelujah

US (1929): Musical/Drama

In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick (Nina Mae Kennedy), but she's only setting him up for a rigged crap game. He loses $100, the money he got for the sale of his family's entire cotton crop. His brother Spunk (Everett McGarrity) is mortally wounded in the shoot-out which follows. Zeke goes away but returns as Brother Zekiel the preacher. His forceful preaching draws the faithful in large numbers. Even Chick wants to be saved. Zekiel has asked the pretty Missy Rose (Victoria Spivey) to marry him, but Chick can still cast a spell over the preacher... King Vidor directs this first all-black musical film from M-G-M. (David Steele, IMDb)

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