Beggars of Life (1928)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

drama film, silent film, crime film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 22m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in trouble with the law disguises herself as a boy and hops freight trains. She joins two hobos as they travel across the country trying to stay ahead of the authorities.

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What happens

Beggars of Life is a 1928 American part-talkie sound film that was directed by William Wellman. The film stars Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen as hobos, and Louise Brooks as a young woman who dresses as a young man and flees the law. Although the film featured sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released on both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats. Currently circulating are mute prints from the sound-on-disc version. The majority of the sound discs (except for the first reel) are believed to be lost. Brooks recounted her memories of working on the film in her 1982 book, Lulu in Hollywood. The film is regarded as Brooks's best American movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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