Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
February 3, 1933Release Date
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
February 3, 1933Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Al Jolson
Bumper
Madge Evans
June Marcher
Frank Morgan
Mayor John Hastings
Harry Langdon
Egghead
Chester Conklin
Sunday
Tyler Brooke
Mayor's Secretary
Tammany Young
Orlando
Bert Roach
John
Edgar Connor
Acorn
Dorothea Wolbert
Apple Mary
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
Robert Homans
Cop
Burr McIntosh
Dignitary at Laying of Cornerstone
William H. O'Brien
Waiter (uncredited)
Victor Potel
The General
Richard Rodgers
Photograper's Assistant
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Release DateFebruary 3, 1933
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Content RatingNR
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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".