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Riding the Rails (1997)

Riding the Rails

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TV-PG

1h 12m

Documentary, Historical

January 18th, 1999

7.5/10

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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.

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Cast

C.R. 'Tiny' Boland
Self
Charley Bull
Self
Rene Champion
Self
Peggy De Hart
Self
John Fawcett
Self
Clarence Lee
Self
Jim Mitchell
Self
Arvel 'Sunshine' Pearson
Self
James San Jule
Self
Bob 'Guitar Whitey' Symmonds
Self
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Directors

Lexy Lovell
Michael Uys
Full cast & crew

Producers

Lexy Lovell
producer
Michael Uys
producer
Full cast & crew

Writers

Lexy Lovell
Michael Uys
Full cast & crew

Keywords

survival
death
violence
All Keywords

Country of Origin

United States of America

Languages

English

Release Dates

January 18th, 1999 (Iceland) (Reykjavik Film Festival)
March 1st, 1998 (India) (Bombay International Film Festival)
January 1st, 1997 (United States of America) (Sundance Film Festival)
All Release Dates

Alternative Titles

Riding the Rails (original title)
Riding the Rails (United States of America)

Running Times

72 min

Production Companies

Out of the Blue Productions
The American History Project

Distribution Companies

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
Artistic License
American Experience

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