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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 based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. 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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Der letzte Alarm, Welt ohne Geld, Unser tägliches Brot, Nostro pane quotidiano, El pan nuestro de cada día, 일용할 양식, 民以食为天, O Pão Nosso, Ekmek Kavgası, Vårt dagliga bröd
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30 Jul 1934
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Chicago, Illinois
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02 Oct 1934
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12 Oct 1934
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01 Jan 1935
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14 Jan 1935
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05 Aug 1936
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kael called this dramatically "primitive" for its simplicity in writing and messaging but it's quite clear the real story is the sense of community captured in the form; vidor's beautiful, elemental images/editing creating an energetic rhythm and symmetry as the people begin to realize and become excited by the power of their collectivism. that the material is corny and yet the climactic montage is one of the most exciting you'll ever see feels like exactly the point. it was supposedly so convincing in its socialist messaging that its release in california was delayed so as not to help upton sinclair in the 1934 gubernatorial election.
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Isn't as cohesive or sophisticated as Vidor's other gems from this era like The Stranger's Return or So Red The Rose, the temptation subplot is very silly and completely redundant, & Vidor putting down socialism mere seconds after putting down democracy only demonstrates his lack of clarity - but even if the movie is more inept politically than it might seem, it's made up by sheer courageousness. Naivety, simplicity, optimism, wheat, bread...there's so much here to like even if its politics are somewhat incomprehensible. Then again this is a belief in collectivism and a belief in the land - one will not find answers here, but it's so well meaning in its portrayal of finding happiness and sustenance through collectivism and…
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an extraordinary work, especially by the standards of today -- king vidor was one of the few classic hollywood pioneers who was interested in labor, the reality of daily sustenance, the sweat on the backs of working people trying to make it in this world; so instead of offering glamorous fantasies like his contemporaries, vidor gives us our daily bread, a communal vision of what an alternate society could be for working class americans during the great depression -- a band of destitute disparates collectively working the land, taking care of each other, and sharing the spoils together as one big team!
this is a profoundly anti-cynical film, a movie which really believes in the capacity of regular people to…
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"i hope i can do as much for you some day."
when you have faith on the other, even returning to bartering can be a good idea. one of the most beautiful films on community.
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Como um amigo comentou, um sistema onde pessoas precisam morrer para que ele não entre em colapso não é um sistema que merece ser preservado. #quarentena
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King Vidor's depression-era commune saga is hilariously confused; the crowd of cast-offs that Tom Keene bands together denounce socialism moments before everyone begins production on the farm they collectively own. The rest of the film is a startlingly leftist treatise on how to solve the woes of the era. There's even a nod to the 30's equivalent of diversity. (One Jewish family.) It's enough to make you dewy-eyed by the time you reach the gushing climax.
The side of temptation provided by Barbara Pepper is completely unnecessary and never really resolved, but she's a lot of fun to watch. Familiar faces like John Qualen and Ray Spiker add to a comfortable mood.
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I've never seen such joy!
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This is an interesting one. It has a tremendously high average rating here which is somewhat out of place being a 90 year old film. It's basically about an early employee-owned farming co-op formed from city dwellers looking to scratch a living in rural America during the depression. The film is pretty mundane until act three when drought threatens the livelihood of the farm. The concerted effort to save it and the celebration afterward is certainly reason enough to see this one. It's inspirational, to put it in a single word. I find myself quite below the average here, but I'm an action junkie so that's not out of the ordinary for me and dated Dramances regardless of how inspiring they are.
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April 2022: Director of the Month - King Vidor
This month I'm diving into the films of King Vidor, a director not easy to classify but who had a successful and noteworthy career in Hollywood spanning more than 40 years, starting with silent films. His earlier works centered on common people and their struggles.. The later films on individual characters and their conflicts. Some themes recur throughout: idealism, disillusionment and redemption amidst a broader American landscape. Many are now part of the canon.
Our Daily Bread was meant to be a sequel to Vidor's 1928 film The Crowd featuring the same married couple John and Mary but played by different actors (Tom Keene and Karen Morley). But this is very…
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Naive but supremely well-intentioned tale about Depression-era proletarian co-operation. The political perspective of Our Daily Bread is so 'progressive' that, not only is it no surprise that it is an independent production, untouched by major studio and released through United Artists, but it is remarkable that it was made at all by such an industry titan as King Vidor (and a young up-and-coming screenwriter named Joseph Mankiewicz). It is exactly this type of film that the hounds of HUAC would descend upon and devour after the war.
The farming co-operative that Tom Keene and Karen Morley establish with other destitute victims of the Depression is depicted through overly rose-tinted spectacles - only a few characters exhibit greed or rancorous intentions.…
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I’ve long had this dumb idea for how I’d write a FRAGGLE ROCK movie. While watching OUR DAILY BREAD I realized King Vidor beat me to the punch by 83 years, just without Doozers.
