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Riding the Rails

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5.7/10 • 10

1997-01-011h 12m

Documentary

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression. The filmmakers relay the experiences and painful recollections of these now-elderly survivors of the rails. Forced to travel more by economic necessity than the spirit of adventure, the film's subjects dispel romantic myths of a hobo existence and its corresponding veneer of freedom. Riding the Rails recounts the hoboes' trade secrets for survival and accounts of dank miseries, loneliness, imprisonment, death, and dispossession. Sixty years later, the filmmakers transport their subjects back to the tracks, where the surging impact of sound and movement resuscitates memories of a shattered adolescence and devastating rite of passage.

Directors
Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Editors
Howard Sharp

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  1. Richard Thomas

    Richard Thomas

    Narrator

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
great depressionriding the rail1930s