Our Daily Bread

Oct 2, 1934

1h 20m

★ 6.9

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Viking Productions

United Artists

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Cast

Mary Sims

Karen Morley

John Sims

Tom Keene

Sally

Barbara Pepper

Louie

Addison Richards

Chris (as John T. Qualen)

John Qualen

Uncle Anthony

Lloyd Ingraham

Rent Collector

Sidney Bracey

Frank - the Carpenter

Henry Hall

Mrs. Cohen (as Nellie Nichols)

Nellie V. Nichols

Plumber

Frank Minor

Stonemason

Bud Rae

Little Man

Harry Brown

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