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"Depression-era drama in which a young couple lead a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed."@en
"Our daily bread: A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a commune, and bread! California election: two films used as conservative propaganda to paint the End Poverty in California's supporters as sluggardly, indecisive radicals as opposed to the respectable intelligent idealists of Republican incumbent Frank Merriam's camp. The plow that broke the plains. A visualization of the settlement and landscape changes to the Great Plains. The river: A record of the Mississippi River. Power and the land: Designed to convince American farmers of the necessity for rural electrification through farm cooperatives. Shows a dramatization of a family on an Ohio farm revealing the hardships of life on a non-electrical farm are contrasted with the benefits brought by electricity. The new frontier: Shows how pioneers create a new community."@en
"Our daily bread: A depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by David Shepard. California election: Two fake newsreels used as conservative propaganda to paint the End Poverty in California's supporters as sluggardly, indecisive radicals as opposed to the respectable intelligent idealists of Republican incumbent Frank Merriam's camp. Secretly produced by MGM and Irving Thalberg. The plow that broke the plains. A visualization of the settlement and landscape changes to the Great Plains. The river: A record of the Mississippi River. Power and the land: Designed to convince American farmers of the necessity for rural electrification through farm cooperatives. Shows a dramatization of a family on an Ohio farm revealing the hardships of life on a non-electrical farm contrasted with the benefits brought by electricity. The new frontier: Shows how pioneers create a new community."@en
""Lost souls, haunted by vice, seek a better future on an [sic] gritty 'back to the land' commune in King Vidor's Great Depression epic drama. Idle masons, plumbers and carpenters are put to work creating, while former white-collar professionals are retrained in the art of manual labor. But all utopias have a dark side. Despite the overriding pioneering spirit; lust, proffering and deceit tarnish the ideals of the freethinking farmers while frustration and hopelessness corrode their dreams ... A mid-period film by legendary director King Vidor ... Our Daily Bread is evocative depression-era propaganda made outside the mainstream studio sysem..."--Container."
"Directed by King Vidor. Franklin Roosevelt's 1933 inauguration marked a rebirth of hope among Americans and began an unprecedented era of government activity and social experiment. Includes a prologue presented by David Shepard, with introduction by filmmaker King Vidor. Feature starts at 00:04:00. Cast: Charles Farrell [Lem Tustine], Mary Duncan [Kate], David Torrence [J.L. Tustine, Lem's father], Edith Yorke [Mrs. Tustine], Guinn Williams (Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams) [a farmhand]; Dawn O'Day (Anne Shirley) [Mary Tustine], Dick Alexander (Richard Alexander) [Mac], Tom Maguire [Matey], Pat Rooney (Patrick Rooney) [Butch], Roscoe Ates [a farmhand], Edward Brady [a farmhand], Mark Hamilton [a farmhand], Jack Pennick [a farmhand], Helen Lynch [the flirting woman on the train], Marjorie Beebe [Kate's waitress friend], Ivan Linow [the cab driver restaurant patron], Joe Brown [a restaurant patron], Arnold Lucy [a restaurant patron], Eddie Boland [a restaurant patron], Ed Clay, Harry Gripp, Werner Klingler, Harry Leonard, David Rollins, William Sundholmor. The film is also known as Hell's Crossroads in the USA."@en
"A depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Prologue to Our daily bread: An elderly Vidor remembers the story behind his pioneering film."
"About a young couple living on a subsistence farm during the Great Depression. A drama of the fight for survival."
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an introduction to the movie by King Vidor."
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an introduction to the movie by King Vidor."@en
"Feature film Our daily bread and the following documentaries show life in the United States in the 1930s."@en
"King Vidor, dans son autobiographie, décrit ainsi ce film qui lui tenait beaucoup à coeur: "La jeunesse n'imagine pas ce que fut la crise américaine au début des années 30 avec le chômage, et la dépression, les marches de la faim. Je voulus reprendre alors les 2 protagonistes de "La foule", comme un couple américain type, vivant cette difficile période. John et Mary héritaient d'une ferme en ruine. Ils s'y établissaient (...) jusqu'à ce qu'une centaine d'hommes tirent leur subsistance d'une terre fertile.""
"This populist Depression drama which proposed co-operative farming as an alternative to unemployment, was rejected by the major companies (Vidor raised the finance himself) and on its release attracted criticism from both the left and the right for opposing reasons. Apart from its sociological interest the most impressive aspect now is the rhythmic montage of the irrigation sequence in the final 20 minutes."@en
"Our daily bread: A depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed."@en
"During the Depression, an unemployed city couple and an out-of-work farmer turn a neglected farm into a successful collective enterprise. The film reflects and comments on the economic crisis in the U.S. in the 1930's, and won second prize at the first Moscow Film Festival in 1935."
"Displaced families during the Great Depression build a microcosmic society based on the barter system and equality."@en
"The story of a young couple during the depression who, unable to find work in the city, take over an old farm work. Working together with other unemployed city people, they struggle to survive while waiting to harvest their first crop."
"Our daily bread (King Vidor 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor. -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair. -- The River (Pare Lorentz 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region. -- The Plow that broke the plains (Pare Lorentz 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl. -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana. -- The New Frontier is a government documentary."
"Our daily bread (1934) is a landmark of socially conscious films, produced and directed by King Vidor...This deeply personal work was rejected by the studios, nor could Vidor obtain bank financing for a film reflecting unfavorably on banks. In the end her mortgaged his home and most of his possessions to finance Our Daily Bread, which was released by United Artists at the insistence of its partner and Vidor's friend. Charlie Chaplin. The film advocates a back to the land lifestyle for dispossessed urbanites : it was inspired by the actual cooperative pictured in The New Frontier, a government documentary also included on this DVD. The finale of Our Daily Bread, which depicts digging an irrigation ditch, is one of the classic sequences in all of American cinema."
"Depression story about an odd assortment of trades and professional people--all of them products of an industrialized society which can no longer employ them--coming together on a collectivized farm to contribute their talents, their humanity and their willpower to make a new home and society for themselves."@en
"The final sequences of this independently made Depression era feature depict farmers constructing an irrigation canal to divert water to their parched fields. It is one of the few celebrations to be found in American feature films of truly collective effort, an impressive example of the marrying of montage to narrative drive. As such it makes an interesting comparison with the silent films of Eisenstein and Pudovkin, those of pioneer documentarists Flaherty, Ivens and Lorentz and the British documentary school under Grierson's influence."@en
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in forming a successful communal farm."
"Story of a young couple in financial trouble who decide to take over an abandoned farm owned by the husband's uncle."@en
"During the Great Depression, John and Mary start a communal farm to survive. However, a drought threatens the crop."@en
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple lead a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an introduction to the movie by King Vidor. Also includes two recently discovered phony newsreels concocted by MGM to help sway the 1934 California gubernatorial election away from socialist Upton Sinclair."
"Our daily bread (King Vidor, 1934) is a depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes a prologue to the movie by King Vidor -- The fake newsreels "California Election News #1 and #2 (1934), were secretly produced by MGM as "dirty tricks" in the film industry's political war against Upton Sinclair -- The River (Pare Lorentz, 1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississipi River basin and the effort to restore this region -- The Plow that broke the plains (Pare Lorentz, 1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the Dust Bowl -- Power and the Land (Rural Electrification Administration), elevates the photogenic Parkinson family to iconic figures of Americana -- The New Frontier is a government documentary."
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple lead a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an introduction to the movie by King Vidor. Also includes two recently discovered phony newsreels concocted by MGM to help sway the 1934 California gubernatorial election away from socialist Upton Sinclair."@en
"Depression era drama. Led by an energetic, young couple, a cross-section of America's unemployed cooperate to make a communal farm succeed."@en
"Portrays the struggle of a young couple trying to survive during the Depression."@en
"In Our daily bread, a young couple in the Depression inherit a broken-down farm and make it work. (Halliwell) The River (1937) dramatizes the stripping of the Mississippi River basin; The Plow that broke the plains (1936) focuses on the ecological and human tragedy of the dust bowl ; Power and the land emphazises the need to bring electricity to rural communities ; the two fake California election newsreels were secretly produced by MGM in a "dirty tricks" war against Upton Sinclair."@en
""Overwhelmed by bill collectors, Mary Sims and her unemployed husband John eagerly accept the proposal of Mary's uncle Anthony to move from the city and farm a tract of fallow land on which Anthony has been paying mortgage. Soon after the young New Yorkers arrive at the ramshackled farm, however, they realize that, their enthusiasm not withstanding, they are ill-equipped to restore the barren land. Consequently, when Chris Larsen, a dispossessed, Swedish farmer from Minnesota, is stopped alongside the Sims's field with a flat tire, John suggests that, in exchange for his farming expertise, he and his family live on his land and share in the farm's output. After Chris accepts the offer, John is seized with an idea that other unemployed but skilled men could benefit the farm effort and, the next day, puts signs along the highway advertising work for ten men with trades. To his surprise, the signs bring in dozens of men and their families, all of whom beg John for a chance to work hard. Although only some of the men have labor skills, John accepts every one into the group, and after all the families agree to pool their meager resources, the group, which includes a Jewish and an Italian family, elects John 'boss' of the operation. Working together as a collective, the men till the land and plant corn seeds, while the women make homes out of hand-built shacks. Eventually, corn seedlings sprout, and a baby boy is born to the Jewish family. However, the joy of the collective is soon tempered by the realization that, because no mortgage payments have been made on the land, the farm is to be auctioned by the county sheriff. At the auction, the potential buyers are intimidated into silence by the group, and the sheriff is forced to sell the farm for $1.85 to a member of the collective. Soon after, Sally, a tough-talking platinum blonde, drives up to the farm during a rainstorm and, when she learns that her drunken male companion has just died, accepts Mary's offer to stay. As Mary grapples with the growing food shortage, Sally begins to flirt with John and ignores the warnings of the taciturn but loyal Louie Fuente to leave John alone. When the food shortage nears the crisis point, Louie goes to Chris and, after showing him a poster that identifies him as a fugitive, offers to turn himself in for the $500 reward. Although Chris refuses to help Louie, Sally agrees to pose as Mary in town and collect the reward money. After Sally returns to the farm with the money, John arranges for the group lawyer to plead Louie's case in court. Assured that Louie will serve a minimum sentence, the group spends the reward money, and the hunger crisis passes. Soon, however, the corn is plagued by drought, and total crop failure appears imminent. As the dry days drag on, the community falls into despair, and John is filled with self-doubt. When Mary hears John talk scathingly about the farm, she suspects Sally is behind his unhappiness and confronts her rival directly. Sally confesses to loving John and threatens to leave the farm with him in tow. Unable to resist Sally's seductive pull, John sneaks away with her the next night, but is soon stopped on the road by a vision of Louie. With Louie's disapproving face still lingering in his mind, John notices that the local power plant has resumed operation and has filled a nearby stream with water run-off. Inspired with an idea, John dumps Sally and rushes back to the farm. After gathering the disillusioned group together, John proposes that, if they work day and night, they can build a trench from the stream and divert enough water to save the corn. Although skeptical at first, the group pledges to make the effort, and after two backbreaking days, the trench is built and the crops are salvaged. As water rushes into the parched corn field, a reunited John and Mary embrace"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940."@en
"Called one of the best American social-consciousness films of the 1930s, it tells the story of a group of jobless people, including a plumber, an ex-convict, a carpenter, and a blacksmith, who, crushed by the Depression, set up a collective farm in an effort to build a better future for themselves. Used many people from the unemployment lines as actors."
""Modestes locataires, John et Mary Sims sont menacés d'être expulsés s'ils ne paient pas leur loyer dans les deux jours. Chômeur depuis de longs mois, John vend sa guitare pour offrir à manger à l'oncle de sa femme qui s'est invité à dîner. Riche banquier, l'oncle Anthony propose au couple de partir en province reprendre l'exploitation d'une petite ferme hypothéquée."--Site web Cineclubdecaen."
"Depression era drama. Led by an energetic young couple, a cross-section of America's unemployed cooperate to make a communal farm succeed."@en
"Depression-era drama in which a young couple lead a group of unemployed people in making a communal farm succeed. Includes an introduction to the movie by King Vidor."@en