Beggars of Life (1928) on Netflix
In a panic, Nancy kills the foster father who raised her and flees. A drifter named Jim agrees to help her escape, and she passes as a boy.
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Plot summary
Nancy has been raised by a foster father who treats her badly, and in a moment of panic she kills him. Jim, a young drifter and hobo, comes upon the scene and agrees to help her get away. She puts on boy's clothing so that she can travel without being noticed, and the pair ride a freight train until a brakeman throws them off. Nancy twists her ankle. Wanted by the police, hungry and hurt, they reach a hobo camp, where Arkansaw Snake and Oklahoma Red are competing over who leads the vagabonds. Jim and Nancy hope to get across the border into Canada.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Beggars of Life (1928)
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- Beggars of Life was Paramount's second feature with spoken dialogue and the first time Wallace Beery's voice was recorded for a film, though his spoken lines were limited.
- The sound discs for Beggars of Life, which included recordings of train noises and of Wallace Beery singing a song, are considered lost except for the first of nine reels, and only the mute print version is known to survive.
- The film adapts Jim Tully's 1924 autobiographical book Beggars of Life by way of Maxwell Anderson's 1925 play Outside Looking In; Charlie Chaplin attended a performance of the play with Louise Brooks.
