Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life is a 1928 American part-talkiesound film that was directed by William Wellman. The film stars Wallace Beery and Richard Arlen as hobos, and Louise Brooks as a young woman who dresses as a young man and flees the law.

Although the film featured sequences with audible dialogue, the majority of the film had a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The film was released on both sound-on-disc and sound-on-film formats. Currently circulating are mute prints from the sound-on-disc version. The majority of the sound discs (except for the first reel) are believed to be lost.

Brooks recounted her memories of working on the film in her 1982 book, Lulu in Hollywood. The film is regarded as Brooks's best American movie.