Tokyo Godfathers (2003), Meet John Doe (1941), Places in the Heart (1984), Emperor of the North (1973), Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), Mountain Rhythm (1939), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), Brothers of the West (1938) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hobo movies.
Storyline: Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many adventures along the way.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: homeless person, hobo, transsexual, runaway, alcoholic, baby, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.
Plot Keywords: reporter, editor, hobo, charming, patriotic, uplifting, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.—Susan Southall <stobchatay@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: widow, hobo, boarder, sister, brother-in-law, child, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is during the great depression in the US, and the land is full of people who are now homeless. Those people, commonly called "hobos", are truly hated by Shack (Borgnine), a sadistical railway conductor who swore that no hobo will ride his train for free. Well, no-one but "A" Number One (Lee Marvin), who is ready to put his life at stake to become a local legend - as the first person who survived the trip on Shack's notorious train.—Brian Peterson calyooper@email.com
Plot Keywords: hobo, conductor, police officer, tense, spirited, railway, railyard ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bumper (Al Jolson) is a vagabond leader of a strange group of tatterdemalions and eccentrics who hang around New York's Central Park. Among his followers are Egghead (Harry Langdon), Sunday (Chester Conklin), Acorn (Edgar Conner) , The General (Victor Potel), Orlando (Tammany Young) and Apple Mary (Louise Carver). Bumper's idol is Mayor Hastings (Frank Morgan), whose life he once saved and frequently has lunch at the Park Casino. Bumper is always on hand to open the door of the Mayor's Rolls Royce, and the Mayor makes it a point to linger a moment at the entrance and listen to the whimsical Bumper's philosophy and ideas abut life. Through his contact with the Mayor, Bumper is able to "fix" things when the other vagabonds get in trouble. The Mayor cannot fathom why Bumper, an unusually bright fellow, is content to spend his life in the park, doing nothing. The Mayor, for all his power and popularity, is unhappy. He's in love ----and madly jealous. He believes his sweetheart June Marcher (Madge Bellamy) is "two-timing" him. At lunch he slips a $1,000 in her purse. She loses it and the Mayor accuses her of giving it to another man. Bumper find the purse and takes it to the address in the purse and is met there by the exiting Mayor. He does not see nor know June. Later,The grief-stricken June attempts suicide by jumping from a bridge and is rescued by Bumper, but has lost her memory. He takes her to the tenement home of the Sundays, and asks the Mayor to get him a job, as he has a new interest, known to him as Angel, in his life. He spends his money making Angel happy and she falls in love with him. Meanwhile, the Mayor, despondent over not being able to locate the missing June, goes on a drinking binge and is found asleep in the park by Bumper's friends, who take him hoe and notify Bumper. While Bumper is trying to sober him up, Hastings begins talking to a photograph. Bumper discovers the woman in the photograph is that of Angel, and that the girl of his dreams is the Mayor's sweetheart. Bumper takes his friend to the Sunday family tenement and the sight of the Mayor and his voice as he clasps her in his arms restores June's memory. She pleads to be taken away from "this awful place". All she remembers is walking in the park at night. Bumper is a stranger to her. The Mayor takes her away, out of Bumper's life. Bumper returns to the park and his former life.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: hobo, friend, woman, mayor, charming, offbeat, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cavanaugh and McCauley are after the ranchers land. When the Government announces the land will be put up for auction, the ranchers pool their money only to have it stolen by Cavanaugh's men. They then plan to sell their cattle but Cavanaugh announces a fake gold strike and the cowhands all leave. But Gene's hobo friend the Judge says he will get the cattle to market and he sends out a signal to his hobo friends.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: gene autry, sidekick, aunt, hobo, rancher, developer, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 'Kit Kittredge: An American Mystery' centers around a young girl living in the struggles of the Great Depression. 10 year old Kit lives in a boarding house her parents own in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has a passion for writing, & dreams of having something of hers put in the local paper someday. With the help of her friends, Sterling & Ruthie, will her dream finally come true?—wgdpink
Plot Keywords: reporter, hobo, friend, thief, father, mother, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Wade (Tom Tyler), agent for the Cattleman's Protective Association, receives word that his brother Ed Wade (Bob Terry), a cattle rancher, has disappeared and is suspected of murder. Tom goes to Ed's ranch and learns from Ed's wife, Annie (Dorothy Short), that Chandler (George Morrell) the banker was killed and robbed of a large amount on money. The bullet taken from Chandler's body was proved to have been fired from Ed's gun. During the investigation, Tom, working undercover, meets Celia Chandler (Lois Wilde), the banker's daughter, who is also trying to find out who killed her father. She accuses Ed of the murder and suspects Tom of being an accomplice. Tom's investigation leads him to suspect a lawyer named Jeff Tracey (Roger Williams), and while Tom is seeking proof, he learns that Tracey and his henchmen have Ed as a prisoner. Tom is ambushed and captured when he is about to discover where Tracey and his henchmen have Ed hidden, Mealwhile Celia has found Ed and discovered the truth. She hides when the outlaws arrive with Tom as their prisoner and later succeeds in releasing Tom. She rides for help from Sheriff Bains (Lafe McKee) while Tom goes after the gang, and after a fight has them in his power when help arrives.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: hobo, detective, murder suspect, brother, girlfriend, sister-in-law, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Gilbert is searching for a necklace robbed by a gang of thieves. In the beginning, the gang is in a house in London, then they are running away from police. It will not be easy for the detective to recover the jewel.—Claudio Sandrini <pulp99@geocities.com>
Plot Keywords: hobo, detective, thief, young girl, suspenseful, amusing, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the early 1900s, Wes Anderson is arrested for night-time cattle rustling (moonlighting). He had been gone from his home town for five years, leaving his sweetheart, Rela, to wait for him. Wes' brother, Tom, has chosen a different path in life and works as a teller in a bank in Rio Hondo. Tom is in-love with Rela and he pressures her to marry him in Wes' absence. Languishing in a sheriff's jail, Wes is awaiting trial, which promises to be a fair one, at least according to the town sheriff. But an angry lynch mob of local ranchers agitate in front of the jail, swinging a hanging rope and hankering for Wes' blood. When the sheriff leaves his jail for a lunch-break, the mob breaks into the jail, grabs an imprisoned hobo by mistake and hangs him. The lynch-mob believes to have hung Wes but he is safe, in jail. After he escapes from jail, Wes vows revenge on the members of the lynch mob. During the following days, Wes raids the ranches of those who participated in the lynch mob. He burns their ranches and barns, kills their livestock and he gets into gunfights with the ranchers. Wounded during a raid, Wes runs home to his mother's house. There he heals his wounds, re-connects with his mother and brother and also meets with Rela. Wes is still in-love with her but she claims not to be interested anymore. She prefers marrying Wes' brother, Tom, who offers more security than Wes. However, when Tom looses his job at the bank, Wes lures him into a bank-robbing scheme. Angry at his former employer, Tom agrees to join his brother Wes in robbing the bank in Rio Hondo. Tom figures he could use the robbery money to marry Rela. A third man, outlaw Cole Gardner, joins the Anderson brothers in their plan. The robbery has unexpected hitches that sends the robbers into a mountain hideout. Some double-crosses occur and the sheriff's posse trails the robbers. In a last-minute twist, Rela asks the sheriff to deputize her with the rest of the posse and promises to bring the robbers to justice. Will Rela shoot the men she loves or Vice-Versa ?—nufs68
Plot Keywords: cattle rustler, brother, old flame, hobo, sheriff, rancher, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Donald Middleton (Joel McCrea), a small-town doctor and researcher, works unceasingly on experiments with his devoted nurse, though he does love his wife, Elsa (Rosemary Ames), and little daughter, Molly (Shirley Temple). Convinced that his work will allow him to fulfill his dream of studying in Europe, Don grows so obsessed that he pushes the depressed Elsa into the arms of a charming playboy, and Molly becomes convinced that it would be better for everyone if she ran away.
Plot Keywords: physician, wife, daughter, nurse, playboy, hobo, emotional ...
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