After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl escapes with a young vagabond and dresses as a boy. They hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and use a stolen car in their attempt to reach Canada.
Beggars of Life is absolutely worth watching today, not as a historical curiosity, but as a genuinely gripping piece of survival cinema. If you find silent films too stagily theatr...
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