Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

1934 | 1h 14m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

When he inherits a small farm, a Depression-weary man turns it into a collective operation.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

King Vidor

CAST

Karen Morley

Tom Keene

John Qualen

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

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Related Videos

Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) You Yoking?
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John (Tom Keene) begins work, Mary (Karen Morley) watching, and John Qualen (as "Chris") arrives with farming know-how and an early sample of his famous "Sveedish" accent, in King Vidor's Our Daily Bread, 1934.
Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Why Pay Rent?
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Values expressed with road signs in what later became Tarzana, California, as volunteers gather and get interviewed by farmer John (Tom Keene) in King Vidor's self-financed Depression drama Our Daily Bread, 1934.
Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) We Start Here!
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John (Tom Keene) rouses the workers and Chris (John Qualen) breaks the earth as the collective farming begins in King Vidor's Depression drama Our Daily Bread, 1934.
Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Chicken
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Opening sequence from Our Daily Bread, 1934, and introduction of Mary and John (Karen Morley, Tom Keene) who have the same first names as the couple in the director King Vidor's earlier feature The Crowd, 1928.
Our Daily Bread (1934) -- (Movie Clip) The Ditch Is Done!
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Ecstatic, agrarian, collective, cascading joy as the farmers finish the irrigation ditch to save the corn crop, the climax of King Vidor's self-financed mid-Depression drama Our Daily Bread, 1934.

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