BEGGARS OF LIFE - BLU

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• Release Year: 1928
• Genre: Adventure, Drama
• Plot: NEW RESTORATION! ; ; An American silent film classic, Beggars of Life stars Louise Brooks as a train-hopping hobo who dresses like a boy to survive.; ; After escaping her violent stepfather, Nancy (Brooks) befriends kindly drifter Jim (Richard Arlen), and they ride the rails until an encounter with a rowdy band of hoboes led by the blustery Oklahoma Red (Wallace Beery) leads to a daring, desperate conflict on top of a moving train. Based on the memoir of real-life hobo Jim Tully, and directed with adventuresome verve by William Wellman, Beggars of Life is an essential American original. Features a new original score by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
• Cast: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Blue Washington, Kewpie Morgan, Andy Clark, Mike Donlin, Roscoe Karns, Bob Perry, Johnnie Morris, George Kotsonaros, Jack Chapin, Robert Brower, Frank Brownlee, Gilbert Holmes, Guy Oliver, Harvey Parry, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, William A. Wellman, Benjamin Glazer, Jim Tully
• Director: William A. Wellman
• Runtime: 1:21
• Company: Kino Classics
• Media Format: Movie