Beggars of Life

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Beggars of Life
Directed by	William A. Wellman
Produced by	Jesse Lasky Adolph Zukor
Starring	Wallace Beery Louise Brooks Richard Arlen
Music by	Karl Hajos
Cinematography	Henry W. Gerrard
Editing by	Alyson Shaffer
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	22 September 1928
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

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 a novel called "Beggars of Life" by Jim Tully, the film is often regarded as Brooks' best 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, a lost film.

A copy of Beggars of Life, blown up to 35 mm from the only surviving 16 mm print, was screened at the 12th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival at the Castro Theatre in July 2007.

[edit] Cast

Wallace Beery ... Oklahoma Red
Louise Brooks ... The Girl (Nancy)
Richard Arlen ... The Boy (Jim)
Bob Perry ... The Arkansaw Snake (as Robert Perry)
Blue Washington ... Black Mose (as Edgar Washington)
Roscoe Karns ... Lame Hoppy
Guinn "Big Boy" Williams ... Baker's Cart Driver (uncredited)

[edit] External links

• Beggars of Life at Internet Movie Database
• Leonard Maltin's Journal

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