Beggars of life
By: a Paramount picture ; Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky present ; a William Wellman production ; adapted & supervised by Benjamin Glazer ; directed by William A. Wellman
Contributors: Tully, Jim, author; Beery, Wallace, actor; Brooks, Louise, 1906-1985, actor; Arlen, Richard, 1900-1976, actor; Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation; Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra; Kino Lorber, Inc
Published: 2017
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Drama; Impersonation; Homeless children; Teenage girls; Tramps; Girls; Fugitives from justice
Description: 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.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1928.

Includes an accompanying score compiled and performed by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.

"This is a digital reproduction of a 35mm film preserved by yhe George Eastman Museum"--Opening screen.

Full screen (1.33:1).

Special features: 2 audio commentaries, one with William Wellman, Jr., and one with Thomas Gladysz, founding director of the Louise Brooks Society; booklet essay by Nick Pinkerton.

Director of photography, Henry Gerrard ; story by Jim Tully.

Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Robert Perry, Roscoe Karns, Edgar Washington.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) ; silent with score, 2.0 stereo.

Silent film with English intertitles.