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WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD |
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1933: The economic hardships of the Great Depression have reached just about everywhere in America, including the white picket-fence places. In California, high school friends Eddie (Frankie Darro) and Tommy (Edwin Phillips) take to the road in search of work. At least, there will be one less mouth for each of their family's to feed. While hopping freights headed east to Chicago, Eddie and Tommy encounter hundreds of teenagers like themselves, including a pair of tough girls, Grace (Rochelle Hudson) and Sally (Dorothy Coonan). As the four together ride the rails, one falls victim to the sexual predation of a railroad worker and another is injured horribly by a moving train.
In Ohio, they, along with hundreds of other runaway teens, build a makeshift town out of salvaged junk only to be driven off with fire-hoses. In a kind of Manifest Destiny in reverse, they reach New York City, their desperation such they are willing to engage in organized thievery. Caught, they are taken before the judge...
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