The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 Western spoof directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Brian Keith, Donald Pleasence, and Martin Landau, amongst others. The film is presented in a pseudo-documentary style, with a serious, tongue-in-cheek narrator providing historical background and context, and periodically interrupting the story to point out animated charts illustrating strategic positions of various groups. "Buffalo were feeding ravenously. Beaver were damming and storing with strange vigor. Horses and dogs were becoming shaggy-haired as never before. And it could... be sensed in the booming, bustling mining town of Denver. Most historians agree that the events leading to the Battle of Whiskey Hills and the subsequent disaster at Quicksand Bottoms began here in Denver at a miners' meeting" In the year 1867, signs that the approaching winter will be a hard one produce agitation in the burgeoning mining town of Denver, Colorado, as the hard-drinking citizenry fear a shortage of whiskey.
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| Release date: | June 23, 1965 |
| Directed by: | John Sturges |
| Runtime: | 165 Minutes |
| Editor: | Ferris Webster |
| Music by: | Elmer Bernstein |
| Cinematography: | Robert Surtees |
| Screenplay by: | John Gay |
| Genre: | Western, Comedy |