Our Daily Bread And Other Films of the Great Depression
General Information
- Published
- United States, 1936.
- Physical Description
- DVD-ROM (194 min.)
- Digital ver. identifier
- HU_OSA_00002970
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Our Daily Bread (1934) is a landmark of socially conscious films, produced and directed by King Vidor, who made such earlier masterworks as The Big Parade, The Crowd, Hallelujah! and The Champ. This deeply personal work was rejected by the studios, nor could Vidor obtain bank financing for a film reflecting unfavorably on banks. In the end he mortgaged his home and most of his possessions to finance Our Daily Bread, which was released by United Artists at the insistence of its partner and Vidor's friend, Charlie Chaplin. The film advocates a back-to-the-land lifestyle for dispossessed urbanites; it was inspired by the actual cooperative pictured in The New Frontier, a government documentary also included on this DVD. The finale of Our Daily Bread, which depicts digging an irrigation ditch, is one of the classic sequences in all of American cinema.
Subjects
- Genre
- Fiction films
Bibliographic Information
Holdings
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DVD-ROM | OSA Film Library | FL Record 1318 | Available | - | - |
Digital film | OSA Film Library | FL Record 1318 (HU_OSA_00002970.mp4) | Available | | Access Copy, MP4 format |