Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

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

NR 1934 · 80 min · ★ 6.7 · 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.

Directed by King Vidor · Written by King Vidor

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Karen Morley Mary Sims
Tom Keene John Sims
Barbara Pepper Sally
Addison Richards Louie
John Qualen Chris (as John T. Qualen)
Lloyd Ingraham Uncle Anthony
Sidney Bracey Rent Collector
Henry Hall Frank - the Carpenter
Nellie V. Nichols Mrs. Cohen (as Nellie Nichols)
Frank Minor Plumber
Bud Rae Stonemason
Harry Brown Little Man

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