Word: hobos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hobo is a Japanese comedy in the Italian manner. The fine Japanese hand of Director Zenzo Matsuyama has blended the smiles-and-tears vagabondage of La Strada with the bumbling malfeasance of Big Deal on Madonna Street into a Campari and sake cocktail that may be bitter at first sip but is warm on the aftertaste...
Blackie is more a knight of the open road than the closed shop. He hops freights from job to job, starves in hobo jungles. He is a philosophical anarchist but a rebel with a lofty cause, the brotherhood of man. Bedeviled by whisky and women, his behavior is far from lofty. He spends half his time righting his course after wronging himself in one inane way or another. Yet labor's first freedom fighters, Dos Passos implies, came from the likes of Blackie Bowman, with his inarticulate urge to dignity and his roundhouse rage for justice...