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Beggars of Life (1928)

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Release Date: Sep 22, 1928 Wide

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Release Date: Sep 22, 1928 Wide

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Wallace Beery appeared in this silent film with intertitles, a dark drama of hobo life. Jim (Richard Arlen), a wanderer, comes upon young Nancy (Louise Brooks), who has just killed the guardian who was trying to rape her. Disguised as a boy, she takes off with Jim and rides the rails to a hobo camp led by Arkansas Snake (Robert Perry). When Oklahoma Red (Beery) takes over the camp, he begins to pursue Nancy, but before he can take her from Jim, the detectives show up to arrest her. He escapes

Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure, Classics

Directed By: William A. Wellman

In Theaters: Sep 22, 1928 Wide

Cast

Wallace Beery
Oklahoma Red
Louise Brooks
Nancy
Richard Arlen
Jim
Blue Washington
Mose
H.A. Morgan
Skinny
Mike Donlin
Bill
Roscoe Karns
Hopper
Johnnie Morris
Rubin
George Kotsonaros
Baldy
Robert Brower
Blind Sims
Frank Brownlee
Farmer
Jack Chapin
Ukle
Bob Perry
Arkansas Snake
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Baker's Cart Driver
Andrew Clark
Skelly

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a gritty and fascinating study of hobo life on the rails. louise brooks plays a girl who kills her abusive guardian and goes on the run dressed as a boy in the company of a young tramp. their journey through hobo jungles and hopping freights was mostly filmed on location with some great stuntwork. this was an

February 28, 2011

Stella Dallas

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I enjoyed the first half well enough, with Brooks and Arlen just walking together and hopping trains. The scene in the haystack was really great. The more plot heavy 2nd half didn't interest me as much, and Beery's sudden change of heart is unconvincing. It would have been better without all the heroics at the end,

March 11, 2009

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