After escaping her violent stepfather, Nancy (Louise 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.
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