A series of incidents involving a hobo, the mayor, and the latter's girlfriend.
As reviewer Charles Morrow (wmorrow) and others cleverly observed in the User Reviews section of IMDb, this has the looks of something previously designed to be a sort of cheering-up piece in times of depression, making poverty look charming, or at least bearable. If that was the case, it never achieved its goals. Take for example the bank sequence, which IMDb user Swift-12 described so well: this sequence is as fine an exposé of the contradictions of capitalism as any Marxist treatise. Finally, as IMDb user planetguy insightfully concluded, the initial set-up is gradually dismantled by the plot development until it becomes clear that being a hobo is no fun ride at all.
(This film is number 6 in Dale Thomajan's top ten list for 1933.)
Rating: 56
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