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Arts & Entertainment

Cinema Fall: Films of the Great Depression - "Wild Boys of the Road"

Multiple Universal Newsreels will play prior to the main feature film including News from California, President Visits Foresters and March of Time. Dr. J.D. Connor of Yale University will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards.


Wild Boys of the Road, 1933, tells the story of two teenage boys from California whose family experiences the hardships of the Depression. In order to find work for themselves, the two boys take to the road and sneak aboard a train to Chicago. Life on the road, however, will turn out to be more difficult than they ever could have anticipated.

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