Riding the Rails
1997 | 72m | English
Popularity: 0.3 (history)
| Director: | Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell |
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| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Jan 01, 1997 |
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| Director: | Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell |
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| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | great depression, riding the rail, 1930s |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: May 05, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Richard Thomas | Narrator |
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| Howard Sharp | Editor |
| Michael Uys | Director |
| Lexy Lovell | Director |
| Sam Henriques | Director of Photography |
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