Beggars of Life
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File:Beggars of Life poster.jpg
1928 lobby card
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Directed by | William A. Wellman |
Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
Written by | Jim Tully (autobiography) Maxwell Anderson (play) |
Starring | Wallace Beery Louise Brooks Richard Arlen |
Music by | Karl Hajos |
Cinematography | Henry W. Gerrard |
Edited by | Alyson Shaffer |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates
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September 22, 1928 |
Running time
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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 an autobiography 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, now considered a lost film.[1][2]
Contents
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)
See also
- Miss Nobody (1926)
- Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
References
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Beggars of Life at IMDb
- Beggars of Life at the TCM Movie Database
- Beggars of Life at SilentEra
- Beggars of Life at AllMovie
- Beggars of Life at Virtual History
- poster featuring Wallace Beery
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- Films directed by William A. Wellman
- Paramount Pictures films
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