Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life is a 1928 American part-talkie film directed by William A. Wellman for Paramount Pictures, released with synchronized music and sound effects in both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats rather than as a fully silent picture, though most of its surviving prints today are mute because the majority of its sound discs have been lost. It stars Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen as hobos and Louise Brooks as a young woman who disguises herself as a young man while fleeing the law. Brooks later described the production in her 1982 memoir and is generally considered to have delivered her best American performance in the role.