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Our daily bread movie12/29/2023 He does such a good job farming, that John forms a cooperative commune and allows other hungry unemployed skilled workers to be laborers in this socialist utopia (dozens of them). Not knowing anything about farming, they offer Swedish immigrant Minnesota farmer (John Qualen) and his family work when they learn he lost his farm to the bank. It’s labeled as being ‘i nspired by the headlines of today.’ Writers Elizabeth Hill and Joseph Mankiewicz fill the story with social messages and a rousing rosy finish.Ĭity folks Mary and John Sims ( Karen Morley & Tom Keene ) are tired of evading bill collectors and become farmers when Mary’s uncle Anthony ( Lloyd Ingraham ) lets the sweet unemployed couple take over his abandoned run-down country farm. Unable to get Hollywood-studio backing for his simplistic inspirational Depression-era story, noted Hollywood director King Vidor (“The Big Parade”/”The Crowd”/”Comrade X”), whose film career spanned 67 years, financed the utopian picture himself, with assistance from Charles Chaplin (Vidor supposedly, according to him, just broke even). “ I t makes for an interesting Depression-era time capsule survival film from the New Deal period. (director: King Vidor screenwriters: Elizabeth Hill/Joseph Mankiewicz/story by King Vidor cinematographer: Robert Planck editor: Lloyd Nosler music: Alfred Newman cast: Karen Morley (Mary Sims), Tom Keene (John Sims), Barbara Pepper (Sally), Addison Richards (Louie Fuente), John Qualen (Chris), Lloyd Ingraham (Uncle Anthony) Runtime: 73 MPAA Rating: NR producer: King Vidor Alpha Video 1934) OUR DAILY BREAD (aka: THE MIRACLE OF LIFE)
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