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.

Directed by King Vidor

Top cast

Karen Morley

Mary Sims

Tom Keene

John Sims

Barbara Pepper

Sally

Addison Richards

Louie

John Qualen

Chris (as John T. Qualen)

Lloyd Ingraham

Uncle Anthony

Sidney Bracey

Rent Collector

Henry Hall

Frank - the Carpenter

Nellie V. Nichols

Mrs. Cohen (as Nellie Nichols)

F

Frank Minor

Plumber

B

Bud Rae

Stonemason

H

Harry Brown

Little Man

C.E. Anderson

Schultz - the Butcher (uncredited)

E

Earl Askam

Farmer (uncredited)

L

Lionel Backus

Barber (uncredited)

Eddie Baker

Deputy Sheriff (uncredited)

J

Jack Baldwin

Motorcyclist (uncredited)

M

Marion Ballou

Old Lady (uncredited)

Harry Bernard

Chief (uncredited)

H

Harold Berquist

Father (uncredited)

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