The Last American Hobo

1967

Action / History

3
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 133 133

rediscovered film

Plot summary

Previously lost semi-documentary on the rise and fall of American hobo culture.

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772.57 MB
1280*932
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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1.4 GB
1484*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 24 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by promis-203-603161

I was part of the staged photography as a child

To add to background info on the film - It is true that many images were staged, but I know that he did years of interviews with camera shy hobos and vagrants. I was a 6 or 7 year old girl (1967?) when he used me as part of a still shot of a dirty and ragged hobo family in a field. I think it was photographed in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Titus was careful to omitted the signs of city in the background. I also remember my mother telling me that he won a prestigious award for The Last American Hobo. He was, at that time, producing porn films and erotic still photography, and his name used was Titus Moody. I was sorry to hear of his passing. He was a soft spoken man that was passionate about photography. My interest today is that I wanted to see the film again, and possibly use it as part of my class project for American History. Does anyone know where it is?
Reviewed by rufasff 7 / 10

One of a kind oddball, for those interested in the subject

Moody was a player on the fringe of Hollywood and worked with Shlockmeisters like Coleman Franis and Ray Dennis Steckler. This documetary features Franis( just sort of walking though one scene) and the great Bruno Ve Sota, looking really bad in an pointless, terrible vinette. So grade Z cinema freaks have those reasons for checking in out.Beyond that, it is an oddly irritating look at the history of the American Hobo. Though real hobos are interviewed, most of vinettes are clearly staged. The whole film, which took years to put together(give Moody points for tenacity) is clearly overdubbed and it's hard to tell if anyone is speaking in there real voices.Still, some details are effecting, like two boys jeering at a Hobo who lives in underground caves. Allthough poorly acting, this scene tells us a sad truth about human cruelty. Moody, who narrates, finally takes us to the National Hobo convention in Iowa. The other films big problem is the surprisingly horrible score, shlocky songs that sort of immatate the folk songs of the road.
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