| Beggars of Life | |
| Image Size: | 225px |
| Director: | William A. Wellman |
| Producer: | Jesse Lasky Adolph Zukor |
| Starring: | Wallace Beery Louise Brooks Richard Arlen |
| Music: | Karl Hajos |
| Cinematography: | Henry W. Gerrard |
| Editing: | Alyson Shaffer |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| Released: | 22 September 1928 |
| Runtime: | 100 minutes |
| Internet Movie Database entry 0018684 | |
Beggars of Life (1928) is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run. Based on a novel called Beggars of Life by Jim Tully, the film is often regarded as Brooks' best movie. This is Paramount's first feature with dialogue on the soundtrack and the first time Beery's distinctive voice was recorded for a film, although the talking is extremely limited, similar to Warner Bros.'s The Jazz Singer the previous year.
Beery and Brooks had appeared together the previous year in Now We're in the Air, a lost film.
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