Our Daily Bread
Posted On: March 4, 2010
A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune… and bread!
- Director: King Vidor
- Genre:Drama / Romance
- Runtime:79 minutes
Cast
Karen Morley : Mary Sims
Tom Keene : John Sims
Barbara Pepper : Sally
Addison Richards: Louie Fuente
John Qualen : Chris Larsen
The film depicts a collective of people, some from the big city, who work together on a farm. There is a severe drought, killing the crops. The people then dig a ditch by hand almost two miles long to divert water from a creek to irrigate the crops. The film ends with the people celebrating wildly in the water then harvesting the crops, not showing how they managed to direct the narrow stream of water over the huge plain to evenly irrigate the crops. Read more
