Our Daily Bread

6.7 1934 1h 20m United States of America

Drama Romance

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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We live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD 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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Directors

King Vidor

Writers

King Vidor, Elizabeth Hill, Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast

Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards, John Qualen, Lloyd Ingraham, Sidney Bracey, Henry Hall, Nellie V. Nichols, Frank Minor, Bud Rae, Harry Brown, C.E. Anderson, Earl Askam, Lionel Backus

Production

Viking Productions, United Artists

Languages

English

Countries

United States of America