Movies and TvShows featuring "riding-the-rods" theme.

Blues in the Night (1941) is a gripping film that tells the story of a jazz musician and his band who find themselves entangled in a web of drug addiction, turmoil, and illegal gambling. Set during the Great Depression era, the film follows their journey through poverty, eviction, and encounters with crooked gamblers. With captivating performances and a soundtrack filled with soulful blues, this movie showcases the fortitude of the characters amidst their trials and tribulations.

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

Social drama of Depression-era homeless children who turn to crime and are sentenced by a judge to a rehabilitation "labor camp".

Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.