Beggars of Life (1928)




Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Wallace Beery - Beggars of Life

Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks - Beggars of Life




The picturization of Jim Tully's life story is good entertainment. The incidents from tramp life are interesting because of their novelty. Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen furnish the romance and the manner is new and intriguing. Wallace Beery's song seems to fit the dominating, yet genial, tramp he portrays and sound effects contribute to the realistic atmosphere. Not dull, by any means.

Photoplay December 1928



Vintage magazines

Photoplay , September 1928
Photoplay , October 1928
Photoplay , December 1928

Photoplay , December 1928

Books with substantial mentioning of Beggars of Life

Jerry Vermilye
The Films of the Twenties
Secaucus, NJ, 1985

Articles on Beggars of Life

Neil Brand, 'I've never seen it until now...', in: Sight & Sound, nr. 1 (January), 2013 pp. 75