Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933 Ages 12+

Production still from Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933 / Director: Lewis Milestone

Production still from Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1933 / Director: Lewis Milestone / View full image

When

6.30 pm, Wed 24 Jun 2026 (82 mins)
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Where

Gallery of Modern Art, Cinema A

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

Admission

Free

About

This screening will be introduced by Robert Hughes, Australian Cinémathèque.

Lewis Milestone's Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is an enrapturing, entertaining and entirely eccentric musical like no other. The film tells the story of Bumper (Al Jolson), the beloved 'hobo mayor' of Central Park. Friends with the actual mayor of New York (the Wizard of Oz himself, Frank Morgan), their paths become entangled when Bumper unwittingly falls for the mayor's amnesiac girlfriend June (Madge Evans). Both melancholy and richly funny, it contains double Oscar-winner Milestone's most ingenious visual invention, creatively capturing the rhyming-couplet dialogue and imaginative musical numbers from Rogers and Hart.

Ages 12+

Production Credits

  • Director: Lewis Milestone
  • Script: SN Behrman
  • Based on: a story by Ben Hecht
  • Cinematographer: Lucien N Andriot
  • Editor: Duncan Mansfield
  • Cast: Al Jolson, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan
  • Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
  • Rights: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
  • Year: 1933
  • Runtime: 82 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Shooting Format: 35mm
  • Screening Format: 16mm