Our Daily Bread (1934 film)

• Karen Morley: Mary Sims
• Tom Keene: John Sims
• Barbara Pepper: Sally
• Addison Richards: Louie Fuente
• Lloyd Ingraham: Uncle Anthony

Our Daily Bread is an American feature film from the year 1934.

Action

Mary and John Sims live in the big city. Like millions of other men during the Great Depression John is also unemployed. For the lowest labor work, he must be present every day with hundreds of others in the mediation and it is felt that always empty. Therefore, the desperate pair appears the idea of Uncle Anthony as a solution, because Anthony gives them a farm with a piece of land. You want to farmers out of the city and in the country as it propagated President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal.

Full of optimism John and Mary arrive at the dilapidated farm and get down to work. Unfortunately, John is not a farmer, so his ignorance of both brings back to the brink of despair quickly. When John a farmer family that has broken down car in the amount of his farm help, the tide turns. Her husband was on his way to California, as he was expelled from his own farm and is hoping there to find new work. John offers the desperate farmers to dating on his farm to be. The collaboration works excellent. John brings this to the idea of ​​his country to share with others and to ensure in collective labor for daily bread all. With signs on the street, he invites more Desperate to his farm and soon he has a sizable group of job seekers employed. With John as chief all together start a new life in a large community of former unemployed.

But the farm of Uncle Anthony is charged and is to be auctioned. When the county sheriff organized an auction, families at risk of losing everything. When some speculators want to bid on the auction, the farm, the farm workers prevent this with a trick and can even bid on the land for $ 1.85. The men want to give John the farm, but there is more convinced than ever after this selfless gesture of a reality his vision of the collective work.

But the road is difficult. First financial relief to know the farm dwellers than they receive from the attractive Sally $ 500 surprisingly. The money she had received by the worker Louie, who - wants to put the police to give the community the money - as a wanted criminal. In order to get the reward, Sally returns as Mary Sims. However, the pretty blonde is not only savior but also competes with Mary to John's favor, which strains the marriage of John and Mary. In parallel, the survival of the community is at risk again, because a drought threatened the first harvest. But all working together to create a channel that feeds water to the fields and can save in this way, the harvest and the survival of the community.

Background

King Vidor could not find a producer in Hollywood for this film project and had to invest their own money into the production. He was supported only by Charles Chaplin, who saw to it that the film on United Artists came into the rental.

Reviews

" A superbly staged socially critical drama about problems from the American world of work, the persuasive implements the ideas of the New Deal policies of President Roosevelt. Despite the overly naive optimism a remarkable plea for self-determination and solidarity. "