Our Daily Bread (1934)
1934 · Feature film · 73 min · dir. King Vidor
We live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD
- Drama
- Romance
Synopsis
John Sims is a man with big ideas but little follow through. Unemployed, unable to find a job, and having no money with the economy being as depressed as it is, he and his loving wife Mary Sims are a few days away from being evicted and thus homeless. Not wanting a handout per se, Mary is hoping that her visiting Uncle Anthony will at least be able to offer John a job. What he offers them instead is an unused farm property - one hundred sixty acres - for which he has no use, and which the bank…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- King Vidor
- Writer
- King Vidor
- Composer
- Alfred Newman
- Cinematography
- Robert H. Planck
- Studio
- Viking Productions, United Artists
- Released
- 1934-10-02
- Running time
- 73 minutes
Cast & crew
King Vidor Director
Tom Keene
Lloyd Ingraham
Harry Bernard
Henry Hall
Barbara Pepper
Karen Morley
Addison Richards
John Qualen
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Optimism · Rybak · 2008-05-18
O.K., you can say this film is naive, but it is great in its optimism and an important vote for solidarity. Worth watching! Good directed by King Vidor. Good Cast.
★★★★★ · This is the United States of America · Fireball Steve Zodiac · 2008-05-13
Sounds corny but when the going gets rough, this movie very well depicts how Americans come together. A good drama.
★★★★★ · The American way · sciwriter · 2008-05-13
This was the American version of a "tractor driver" movie produced in many countries during the 1930's which showed how spirited farmers with the help of a tractor ended crop failure resulting in a bumper harvest. Of course, for example, in the following countries this spiritedness was due to inspiration from: . Soviet Union-Stalin's Communist collectivization. . Italy--.Mussolini's Fascist controlled patriotic cooperation in privatized farming. In Our Daily Bread, the farmers are self motivated by their own free innovative and cooperative spirit.. Initially they try collectivization, but…
★★★★★ · helping each other is what this country is about · dwpbike · 2010-12-24
the movie dealt with the political angle early on, so what is griping about? this isn't about politics, it's about working together. if there's anything to fuss about, it's their reliance on a single crop. subsistence farming might be a better choice, even today.
★★★★ · Controversial in its time. · deck · 2009-01-02
King Vidor could get little no backing for this movie but was determined to make it. He even sold his limo to get money. It was panned by critics in the US and USSR. The Americans said it was a communist film and the communists said it was capitalist propaganda. I think it is a really good movie. This is probably the only non-western that I have ever seen Tom Keene make.It took nerve to make this during the depression and my hat comes of to King Vidor for having stuff to make it.
★★★ · An Interesting Concept · Retrokevin1 · 2010-08-03
I liked the movie because it show that in hard times people can work together to achieve good this. Our hero Johnny was an inspiration to this group of folks. However it was obvious that his inspiration came from his sweet wife. I wish this movie could have shown a little more of him coming to that realization. Yet when he returned we could only see his focus on bringing the water to the land. His wife gives him a drink of water while he helps the others dig the trench and all he could do was say "thanks." His devotion to her was pretty shot-sighted. Her character could have bailed on him at…
