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Our Daily Bread
We live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
- Original title
- Our Daily Bread
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Jun 13, 2022 · via TMDB
Despite having a pretty lacklustre cast, this is still quite a watchable story of grit and determination set during the American depression. John Qualen ("Chris") - more frequently seen in the more eccentric supporting roles of John Wayne movies - stops by the farm of Tom Keene ("Tom") and "Mary" (Karen Mosley) who have fled the city in the hope of making a new life for themselves on an old farm owned by her uncle. He is invited to stay to help them, and they gradually they realise that by helping each other they can accomplish more, and more efficiently too, so establish a co-operative of locals and out-of-work visitors. The precision involved in their marvellous ditch digging scene proves that point effectively as they must quickly divert a nearby stream (that assumes rather Ganges-like proportions by the time they have finished) to save their drought affected corn is entertaining to watch, and the story reinforces the pioneering determination to try to make a go of things, despite the odds. Sadly, the on-screen talent - aside from Qualen - is pretty mediocre and the production is pretty basic - both of which do hold it back. As a comment on the social and community impact of the downturn in the late 1920s and 1930s - it has still some poignancy, though.
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Karen Morley
Mary Sims
Tom Keene
John Sims
Barbara Pepper
Sally
Addison Richards
Louie
John Qualen
Chris (as John T. Qualen)
Lloyd Ingraham
Uncle Anthony
Sidney Bracey
Rent Collector
Henry Hall
Frank - the Carpenter
Nellie V. Nichols
Mrs. Cohen (as Nellie Nichols)
C.E. Anderson
Schultz - the Butcher (uncredited)
Eddie Baker
Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)
Harry Bernard
Chief (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Professor (uncredited)
Lynton Brent
Bully (uncredited)
Tommy Bupp
Boy (uncredited)
Billy Engle
Abie Cohen (uncredited)
Clarence Geldart
Community Member (uncredited)
Harris Gordon
Cigar Salesman (uncredited)
Mary Gordon
Community Woman in Cottage (uncredited)
Sidney Miller
Cohen's Son (uncredited)
Edward Peil Sr.
Powerhouse Employee (uncredited)
Hal Price
Threatened Bidder at Auction (uncredited)
Bob Reeves
George Hannibal (uncredited)
Harry Semels
Italian Shoemaker (uncredited)
Ray Spiker
Ex-Convict (uncredited)
King Vidor
Farmer Yelling 'Let It Go!' (uncredited)
King Vidor
Director
King Vidor
Producer
Alfred Newman
Original Music Composer
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Dialogue
King Vidor
Story
King Vidor
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Jul 30, 1934
Chicago, Illinois
Oct 2, 1934
