Our Daily Bread

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May 13, 2022 I enjoyed the old fashioned work ethic portrayed in the film. Tells of the days when people actually cared about one another. People today probably won't believe this, but I remember it when people acted this way! Great movie! See more

Oct 5, 2020 Feel good movie about the potential of men when we are kind to each other and work towards common goals. See more

Eli K @Eli22 Dec 26, 2016 Economics and melodrama are the halves of this timeless tale of family, hard work and belief that inspired the great Orson Welles! See more

May 2, 2013 possibly the most socialist film ever to come from hollywood, vidor had to finance this sequel to 'the crowd' himself, with assistance from his friend charlie chaplin. stick around for the final sequence, one of the finest vidor ever filmed. interesting that, ten years later, he became a founding member of the 'motion picture alliance for the preservation of american ideals' which supplied the vast majority of friendly witnesses to the house un-american activities committee. See more

Aug 22, 2012 A beautiful heartwarming drama about a couple from the city who get access to a farm & eventually let people in to help & have a small society. As you could imagine a film set in Depression Era is going to have obstacles for our leads & the drought really puts them in a bad way. Filled with many comments on society & faintly in the background the score is pushing the film on. The final sequences with the men digging the trench for the water to get to their crops is very stirring & touching. A powerful Depression Era film & a true unsung classic of King Vidor. See more

walter m @Harlequin68 Aug 30, 2010 In "Our Daily Bread," Mary(Karen Morley) and John Sims(Tom Keene) have gone so long without work that they have to sell everything that is not nailed down to have money for food. Even a wealthy relative(Lloyd Ingraham) is going through harsh times and he cannot offer him employment. What he can do is give them access to a piece of land he owns that they can farm. However, that is not as easy as it looks. Luckily, Chris(John Qualen), a friendly Swedish farmer, happens by to help out, giving them the idea to put up signs that attract dozens of skilled and unskilled workers. In the prologue to his film "Our Daily Bread," director King Vidor says he made the film as a way of dramatizing the back to the land movement during the Great Depression.(See, the hippies did not invent the commune, just the naked frolicking part.) So, while there are important themes from this movie that are relevant today, it is actually a bit dated and dramatically uneven. On the upside, the movie does not sugarcoat the risks of the farm, gets the fear of the knock at the door right and the climax is absolutely riveting and rousing. See more

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