Beggars of life / a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky present ; a William Wellman production ; adapted & supervised by Benjamin Glazer ; story by Jim Tully ; directed by William A. Wellman.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: K21702 | Kino ClassicsSubtitle language: English Publisher: [New York] : Kino Lorber, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Cinematography, Henry Gerrard.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Blu-ray
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Beggars | Available | 33111009106366 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
Blu-ray, region A; requires a Blu-ray player.
Silent film with English intertitles.
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Robert Perry, Roscoe Karns, Edgar Washington.
Cinematography, Henry Gerrard.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1928.
Full screen (1.33:1).
With optional music accompaniment (DTS 2.0 stereo): "Musical score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, employing selections from the original 1928 Paramount cue-sheet"--Container.
With optional audio commentary in English by actor William Wellman, Jr.
With optional audio commentary in English by Thomas Gladysz, founding director of the Louise Brooks Society.
"[Silent film about] a train-hopping hobo who dresses like a boy to survive. After escaping her violent stepfather, Nancy befriends kindly drifter Jim. They ride the rails together until a fateful encounter with the blustery Oklahoma Red and his rambunctious band of hoboes, leading to daring, desperate conflict on top of a moving train. Based on the memoir of real-life hobo Jim Tully"--Container.