Wild Boys of the Road
(1933)
Country: USA
Synopsis
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys, Eddie (Frankie Darro) and Tommy (Edwin Phillips), strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents - and find life on the road tougher than they expected.
Notes
- 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".
Cast
- Frankie Darro
(Eddie Smith) - Edwin Phillips
- Rochelle Hudson
- Dorothy Coonan Wellman
- Sterling Holloway
- Grant Mitchell
- Beaudine Anderson
(Boy) - Alan Hale Jr.
(Boy) - Buddy Messinger [ALUMNUS]
- George Offerman Jr.
(Boy)
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7 / 10 Excellent. Pre-Code and don't we know it! Probably the most realistic Depression film, perhaps partly because the director, William Wellman, had a knockabout boyhood himself. After having been a fighter pilot with the French Foreign Legion during the First World War he won the first-ever Academy Award for Best Picture with Wings, a corking First World War aviation epic/buddy film/sentimental romance -- not to be confused with Larisa Shepitko's brilliant film of the same name about a former Second World War Russian fighter pilot become an obscure headmistress.
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