Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
1h 8m
Running Time
October 7, 1933Release Date
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
1h 8m
Running Time
October 7, 1933Release Date
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Plot.
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.
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Cast & Crew.
Frankie Darro
Eddie
Rochelle Hudson
Grace
Edwin Phillips
Tommy
Dorothy Coonan Wellman
Sally
Sterling Holloway
Ollie
Arthur Hohl
Dr. Heckel
Ann Hovey
Lola
Minna Gombell
Aunt Carrie
Grant Mitchell
James Smith
Claire McDowell
Mrs. Smith
Robert Barrat
Judge R.H. White
William A. Wellman
Director
Willard Robertson
Captain of Detectives
Ward Bond
Red the Brakeman (uncredited)
Earl Baldwin
Writer
Wade Boteler
Policeman in Court (uncredited)
Daniel Ahern
Writer
Arthur L. Todd
Cinematographer
George Cooper
Man near Columbus (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Mr. Cadman (uncredited)
Thomas Pratt
Editor
Milton Kibbee
Movie Usher (uncredited)
Sidney Miller
Boy Selling Letter (uncredited)
Adrian Morris
Buggie Maylin (uncredited)
Louis Natheaux
Buggie Maylin's Pal (uncredited)
George Offerman, Jr.
One of the Boys (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
Marlo Dwyer
Harriet Webster (uncredited)
Lee Shumway
Mike (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Movie Theater Patron (uncredited)
Alan Hale Jr.
Boy (uncredited)
Beaudine Anderson
Boy (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
homelessness
great depression
poverty
riding the rail
troubled teen
pre-code
school dance
anti-capitalism
jalopy
shantytown
freighthopping
garbage dump dwellers
rape
amputation
freight train
male friendship
youth gang
police raid
rape revenge
hobo
Wiki.
Wild Boys of the Road is a 1933 pre-Code Depression-era American drama film directed by William Wellman and starring Frankie Darro, Rochelle Hudson, and Grant Mitchell. It tells the story of several teens forced into becoming hobos. The screenplay by Earl Baldwin is based on the story Desperate Youth by Daniel Ahern. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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