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Our Daily Bread

1934·US
Director: King Vidor
DramaRomance

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.

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.

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Cast

Karen Morley

Karen Morley

Mary Sims

Tom Keene

Tom Keene

John Sims

Barbara Pepper

Barbara Pepper

Sally

Addison Richards

Addison Richards

Louie

John Qualen

John Qualen

Chris (as John T. Qualen)

Lloyd Ingraham

Lloyd Ingraham

Uncle Anthony

Sidney Bracey

Sidney Bracey

Rent Collector

Henry Hall

Henry Hall

Frank - the Carpenter

Nellie V. Nichols

Nellie V. Nichols

Mrs. Cohen (as Nellie Nichols)

F

Frank Minor

Plumber

B

Bud Rae

Stonemason

H

Harry Brown

Little Man

C.E. Anderson

C.E. Anderson

Schultz - the Butcher (uncredited)

E

Earl Askam

Farmer (uncredited)

L

Lionel Backus

Barber (uncredited)

Crew

King Vidor

writer

Robert H. Planck

cinematographer

Alfred Newman

composer

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