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Our Daily Bread (1934) - (Movie Clip) The Ditch Is Done!

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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