Rent Hallelujah (1929)
3.4 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 40min
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- Synopsis:
- In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) falls for beautiful dancer Chick (Nina Mae McKinney), but she's only setting him up for a rigged craps 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 that follows. Zeke goes away, then 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.
- Actors:
- Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray, Fanny Belle DeKnight, Everett McGarrity, Victoria Spivey, Milton Dickerson, Robert Couch, Walter Tait, Dixie Jubilee Singers, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Evelyn Pope Burwell, Eddie Conners, William Allen Garrison, Eva Jessye, Sam McDaniel, Clarence Muse, Arvert Pott, Madame Sul-Te-Wan
- Directors:
- King Vidor
- Producers:
- Irving Thalberg, King Vidor
- Writers:
- Wanda Tuchock, Richard Schayer, Ransom Rideout, King Vidor, Marian Ainslee
- Others:
- King Vidor
- Studio:
- Blue Media
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
