Wild Boys of the Road
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Screenplay by | Earl Baldwin |
| Story by | Daniel Ahearn |
| Produced by | Robert Presnell Sr. |
| Starring | Frankie Darro Edwin Phillips Dorothy Coonan |
| Cinematography | Arthur L. Todd |
| Edited by | Thomas Pratt |
| Music by | Bernhard Kaun (uncredited) |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $203,000 |
Wild Boys of the Road is a 1933 pre-Code Depression-era American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Frankie Darro, Edwin Phillips, and Dorothy Coonan. It tells the story of several teens forced into becoming hobos. The screenplay by Earl Baldwin is based on the story Desperate Youth by Daniel Ahearn. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".