
Riding the Rails

Watch movie: Riding the Rails Released in (1997) produced by USA, The movie categorized in Documentary, History, and content rating N/A with duration 72 min Streamed at Putlocker & directed by Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys. 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.
Genre: Documentary, History
Actor: Richard Thomas, C.R. 'Tiny' Boland, Charley Bull, Rene Champion, Peggy De Hart, John Fawcett, Clarence Lee, Jim Mitchell, Arvel 'Sunshine' Pearson, James San Jule
Director: Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
Country: USA
Runtime: 72
Release: 1997
Rating: 5.7 out of 10
Language: English,
Views: 410
Content Rating:N/A
Quality: DVD
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