Girls of the Road

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

Meet the girls of the female hobo "jungles"!

The story of an eclectic group of women - tramps, job-seekers and fugitives - either running from or toward something as they hitch-hike their way across the United States.

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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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