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Description
Saturday, May 2 @ 8:00 PM
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts (Film Studies Center Screening Room)
915 E. 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637
☆ WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD ☆
Directed by William A. Wellman • 1933
William Wellman’s sleek, gritty melodrama about teenagers faced with the reality that their parents don’t have enough money to feed them stars Frankie Darro and Edwin Phillips as two high school sophomores who leave home in search of work. Trainhopping their way through the Midwest, they meet several other orphaned teenagers — among them Dorothy Coonan, who was doing fine until her aunt’s brothel was shut down — and ride from town to town and slum to slum as they are run out by the terrifying local authorities. Few people worked as efficiently in pre-Code Hollywood as “Wild Bill” Wellman, who often balanced a strong social conscience with as much sex, violence, and humility as could fit into a six- or seven-reel feature. His work for First National and Warner Brothers in the early ’30s represents much of what made movies as important as they were during the Depression. (JA)
68 min • Warner Bros. Pictures • 35mm from the Library of Congress, permission Warner Brothers
Preceded by: “Their First Mistake” (George Marshall, 1932) – 21 min – 35mm from the Library of Congress
Date & Time
Sat, May 2, 2026 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Venue Details
Logan Center For the Arts Screening Room 201
915 East 60th StreetChicago, Illinois 60637
