Beggars of Life
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| Beggars of Life | |
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Produced by | Jesse Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Louise Brooks Richard Arlen |
| Music by | Karl Hajos |
| Cinematography | Henry W. Gerrard |
| Editing by | Alyson Shaffer |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 22 September 1928 |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Beggars of Life (1928) is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run. Based on a novel called Beggars of Life by Jim Tully, the film is often regarded as Brooks's best American movie. This is Paramount's first feature with dialogue on the soundtrack and the first time Beery's distinctive voice was recorded for a film, although the talking is extremely limited, similar to Warner Bros.'s The Jazz Singer the previous year.
Beery and Brooks had appeared together the previous year in Now We're in the Air, a lost film.[1][2]
[edit] Cast
- Wallace Beery as Oklahoma Red
- Louise Brooks as The Girl (Nancy)
- Richard Arlen as The Boy (Jim)
- Bob Perry as The Arkansaw Snake
- Blue Washington as Black Mose
- Roscoe Karns as Lame Hoppy
- Guinn "Big Boy" Williams as Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Beggars of Life at the Internet Movie Database
- Beggars of Life at the TCM Movie Database
- Beggars of Life at AllRovi
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