Girls of the Road (1940)
Director:
Nick Grinde
Writer:
Robert Hardy Andrews (original screenplay)
Stars:
Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane
The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand the travails of their existence, the governor's daughter dresses down and joins them. There in the hobo camps she experiences their aimless unlucky lives as they hitchhike across the country, and live out of doors. The women are hindered by a pesky sheriff who constantly harasses them.