![]() There’s plenty of room on the farm, why not offer Chris and his family a place to stay on the farm in exchange for helping him work the land. As John helps him repair the truck, he learns that Chris and his family have no home but he has plenty of farming experience. It belongs to an immigrant family of Swede’s headed by Chris (John Qualen). While working the land one day, a truck traveling along the road just outside the farm breaks down. John does not lack ambition, he sets out to work on the farm but it is not easy, especially since he lacks the skills and knowledge needed. Though John is a city boy with no farming experience, they accept the uncle’s offer and move out of the concrete jungle to the country. With no job opportunities on the horizon Mary’s Uncle offers the couple a farm that he no longer wants and the government is about to foreclose. The couple are about to be dispossessed from their apartment for lack of rent money. It is now the depression years and Tom has lost his everyman job. “Our Daily Bread is extension of King Vidor’s masterful classic silent film “The Crowd.” The same lead characters, John and Mary Sims, who came to realize they were just faces in an endless whirlpool of humanity destined to live lives as anonymous nonentities return. If he did not succeed one hundred percent here, and he did not, at least he attempted to extend the art of film as a tool of importance. At this point in his career Vidor was an innovative forward thinking filmmaker willing to stretch himself and the medium. To say “Our Daily Bread” is an uneven flawed work is not giving the film its due.
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