The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he starts to learn how to really enjoy life in ways he never knew were possible.
Acting
Frank Craven's weary executive physically deflates before your eyes.
Costume
Hobo chic vs. boardroom wool: visual class commentary in every thread.
Director
William Nigh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1934, this captures the brief window where Hollywood could still sympathize with radical economic redistribution before the Production Code fully sanitized class resentment.
Claude Gillingwater was 68 playing a crusty hobo mentor; he started in silent films and would work until his death in 1939, making this one of his final turns as America's grandfatherly conscience.
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