Dir.: William A. Wellman
Plot: Two suburban teenagers run away from home in search of work after their families are hit by the Depression and enter the dangerous world of underage hobos, at the mercy of police, railroad guards and each other.
Eddie (Frankie Darro)
and his friend Tommy (Edwin Phillips) are wisecracking best pals whose
friendship is tested when they decide to run away from home after the
Depression strikes their families. Leaving behind a carefree world of co-ed
dances and jalopy rides they hop a train bound for Chicago and hopes of a job, but soon find
they have become part of a wandering tribe of hundreds. Chased from town to
town by police and attacked by train guards, these teenage outlaws drift from
place to place and anger and desperation soon explode into violent
confrontation.
