CinemaOSMovie · 1997 · 1h 12m

Riding the Rails

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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.

Directed byLexy Lovell, Michael Uys

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 12m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1997

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring
Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas

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Creative team
Directed by
Lexy Lovell
Michael Uys

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