Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
1h 22m
Running Time
February 3, 1933Release Date
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
1h 22m
Running Time
February 3, 1933Release Date
Plot.
A New York tramp falls in love with the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend after rescuing her from a suicide attempt.
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Cast & Crew.
Al Jolson
Bumper
Madge Evans
June Marcher
Frank Morgan
Mayor John Hastings
Harry Langdon
Egghead
Lewis Milestone
Director
Tyler Brooke
Mayor's Secretary
Tammany Young
Orlando
Ben Hecht
Writer
Bert Roach
John
S. N. Behrman
Writer
Edgar Connor
Acorn
Lucien N. Andriot
Cinematographer
Dorothea Wolbert
Apple Mary
Duncan Mansfield
Editor
Chester Conklin
Sunday
Louise Carver
Ma Sunday
Ernie Adams
Man Thrown out of Apartment Building
Vince Barnett
Undetermined Secondary Role
Ted Billings
Bum with Violin
Heinie Conklin
Undetermined Secondary Role
Gino Corrado
Undetermined Secondary Role
John George
Bum (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Len
Lorenz Hart
Bank Teller
Media.
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Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and set in the Great Depression.
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 Kops, 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".