Girls of the Road

  • Adventure
  • Crime
  • Drama
7/24/1940
61
NR

"I'm MAE!...I shot a man once, and I've been traveling fast ever since!"

A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.

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  • JF1017xyz

    Girls of the Road is a really poor knockoff of William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road. The movie showcases female bonding a la Thelma and Louise, and exploits the theme of "bad girls" to the max. The time frame for this movie isn't really specific, since the vehicles in the movie are clearly 1940s vintage, but the plot revolves around a group of women hoboing across the country. One of them is the governor's daughter, who sets out to learn the reasons that these women are homeless and transient. Her goal is to provide her father with enough first-hand information so that he can author legislation and policies to end the womens' plight. As she becomes a trusted member of this group, she learns each woman's back-story.

    She has ong...

    December 25, 2021

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