By Vlad Zakh · May 19, 2026
Rochelle Hudson brought a fresh, appealing presence to Hollywood in the 1930s, appearing in dramas, comedies and pre-Code classics. Wild Boys of the Road follows homeless teenagers riding the rails, She Done Him Wrong has a saloon singer juggling suitors, The Penguin Pool Murder investigates a death in an aquarium, and Hell’s Highway plots a chain gang escape. Are These Our Children? and The Public Defender round out the list.
01 Charley Grapewin features in this Depression drama about teenagers left homeless who band together to survive as they ride the rails.
Directed by William A. Wellman · 1h 08m · Rated NR
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02 A brassy, wisecracking saloon singer navigates a web of admirers, criminals and an undercover cop.
Directed by Lowell Sherman · 1h 05m · Rated NR
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03 Rochelle Hudson features in this mystery where a schoolteacher and a police detective investigate a murder discovered at an aquarium.
Directed by George Archainbaud · 1h 10m · Rated NR
04 Convicts on a brutal Southern chain gang plot a desperate escape from their sadistic captors.
Directed by Rowland Brown · 1h 02m
05 A promising young man's slide into delinquency exposes the pressures facing modern youth.
Directed by Wesley Ruggles & Howard Estabrook · 1h 24m · Rated NR
06 Rochelle Hudson features in this crime drama about a wealthy man who secretly moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting corruption.
Directed by J. Walter Ruben · 1h 09m
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