Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to Seattle with Beargrease, a part-time hobo and full time philosopher, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The pair meet up several other men living life on the margins: in particular a scene in which Duffy - an ex-corporate executive now living under a bridge in Spokane & collecting cans - describes how he got there is riveting.
Just as the original hobos of the early 20th century were scorned the mainstream of society, so too ...
Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...
Documentary - Ernest Borgnine, star of the classic train movie Emperor of the North, hosts and narra...
The Great American Hobo produced in 1980 features the music of Supertramp's "Take the Long Way Home"...
A "scenic picture from a hobo's point of view".
The Weaver Brothers hit the road and taste the hobo's life in this, the sixth, entry in the eleven-f...
A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect ...
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrant...
A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterp...
As a solar flare is heading towards Earth, a family man named Arthur befriends a homeless man and fa...
Charlie Chaplin meets a hobo and he is in desperately in need of food and shelter. What transpires i...
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he...
The fanatic beliefs of an internet mystic, a cult leader, and a rookie cop gone rogue are tested on ...
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant ...
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free.
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his hometown of Albany, New York after returning there for ...
A piece of writing with real danger and which focuses on a mysterious mafia of violent Viet Nam Vets...
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Te...
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmm...