Beggars of Life
1928
Beggars of Life is an American film directed by William Wellman and starring Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen as hobos, and Louise Brooks as a young woman who dresses as a young man and flees the law. The film is regarded as Brooks's best American movie.[1]
The actress recounted her memories of working on the film in her essay, “On Location with Billy Wellman,” which is included in her 1982 book, Lulu in Hollywood.[2]
Beggars of Life was released as both a silent and sound film (the latter with added music, sound effects, and dialogue) in September 1928. The sound sequences, which included train noises and Beery singing a song, are now considered lost. This was Paramount's first feature with spoken dialogue and the first time Beery's voice was recorded for a film, although Beery's spoken dialogue was limited. Today, only the silent version of Beggars of Life is known to survive.[3][4]
The film is based on Outside Looking In, a stage play by Maxwell Anderson adapted from Jim Tully’s 1924 autobiographical book, Beggars of Life. The play debuted September 7, 1925 at the Greenwich Village Theater. Among those who attended a performance was Charlie Chaplin, who was accompanied by Louise Brooks. Paramount purchased the rights to Tully's book and Anderson's play in early 1928.[5]
Arlen and Brooks had appeared together the previous year in Rolled Stockings, which is considered a lost film. Beery and Brooks had appeared together the previous year in Now We're in the Air, which was considered a lost film until 2016 when an incomplete copy was found in Czech Republic.[6][7]
In 2017, the best surviving copy of Beggars of Life was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.
Kinostart: | 1928 | ||||||||||||||
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Genre: | Filmdrama, Kriminalfilm, LGBT-Film, Stummfilm | ||||||||||||||
Herstellungsland: | Vereinigte Staaten | ||||||||||||||
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Farbe: | Schwarzweiß | ||||||||||||||
IMDB: | 1145 | ||||||||||||||
Verleih: | Paramount Pictures |
Regie: | William A. Wellman | |
Drehbuch: | Benjamin Glazer | |
Schnitt: | Alyson Shaffer | |
Musik: | Karl Hajos | |
Produzent: | Jesse L. Lasky | |
Adolph Zukor | ||
Darsteller: | Wallace Beery | |
Louise Brooks | ||
Richard Arlen | ||
Guinn Williams | ||
Roscoe Karns | ||
Frank Brownlee |
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