Millions of Us (1935)
1935 · Ephemeral film · 15 min · dir. Slavko Vorkapich
- Drama
Synopsis
Millions of Us (1935) is an early example of American labor-left filmmaking that experiments with enacted forms, anticipating Frontier Films’s renowned People of the Cumberland (1938) and Native Land (1942). Produced surreptitiously in Hollywood in 1934-5, the film dramatizes the plight of millions of unemployed workers amidst the Depression. This message is filtered through the story of a single “forgotten man” who walks the streets in desperate search of a job. Driven by hunger, he…
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Slavko Vorkapich
- Writer
- Gail West
- Studio
- American Labor Films, Inc.
- Released
- 1935-01-01
- Running time
- 15 minutes
Cast & crew
Slavko Vorkapich Director- Wesley Ferguson
Malcolm 'Bud' McTaggart- Glen Neufer
