Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

There is always a solution to every problem perhaps more than one and this problem and its solution moves and entertains. Who hasn't been desperate or down and out and worried about giving up and your luck changes for the better? Here we see that it is possible and to not give up hope. To me Hope is the central theme in this movie. The people work against all odds which is why hope not only works and sustains but delivers if we persevere. These people do just that. We can never really starve because we all have access to...

An early classic by King Vidor, "Our Daily Bread" sees an unemployed couple defaulting on their rent and starting a co-operative out in the countryside. A reaction to the Great Depression, and the vast shanty towns which proliferated under President Herbert Hoover's administration, the film's a stark contrast to some of Vidor's latter works (he'd film Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead" some years later).Much of the film watches as despondent men and women band together, form co-operatives and attempt to turn despair into hope. Revitalised by common purpose, our heroes start farming and housing projects, irrigation projects, and slowly create some semblance of order. Aesthetically the film is evocative of Soviet agitprop cinema, and perhaps Vidor's Kansas scenes in "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). It also contains a subplot about a seductive woman who infiltrates the cooperative and entices a community leader away from his wife and job; she's this Garden of Eden's own serpentine temptress. As the US government and CIA began a violent clampdown on all radically left-wing artists, movements and political bodies in America in the 1930s, and murderously did the same across most of the world over the next 90 years, films like "Our Daily Bread" became, not only rare, but a form of career suicide, especially in the wake of House Un-American Activities Committee. Vidor would film "The Fountainhead" some years later, its politics of extreme individualism reversing Vidor's themes in both "Bread" and his famous silent picture, "The Crowd". Indeed, many directors accused of left-wing sympathies, or who joined the American Communist party (Edward Dmytryk et al), would make proudly right-wing films after freeing themselves of the blacklist. Not wishing to be forced into either exile or bankruptcy, these were naked attempts by artists to ingratiate themselves with those in power. Vidor would himself join the anti-communist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals in 1944.7.9/10 – See "Salt of the Earth" (1954), "Grapes of Wrath" and Vidor's "The Big Parade".

TOM KEENE and KAREN MORLEY are the lesser-known stars of this Depression-era classic, a poor man's "Grapes of Wrath", about a young farming couple who use ingenuity to overcome a drought that threatens to ruin their crops.Tom Keene was a B-actor who did mostly westerns and does a sincere, earnest job of playing the kind of "everyman" role that Henry Fonda and Joel McCrea usually played in these sort of films. While he has a limited range, he makes an appealing hero, a man who fires others with his ambitious idea to build a gully for the water to reach the crops that are badly in need of water. It's this sequence, with the men following orders and digging the ditches that make a pathway for the water, that really makes the film special.Otherwise, it's a rather drab exercise in showing the downtrodden lives of farming people during the Great Depression of the '30s.KAREN MORLEY is lovely as the loyal woman who stands by her man and JOHN QUALEN does an effective job as a frustrated farmer. Some striking scenes for the last half-hour, but a bit heavy going before that.

This Depression-era film attempts to depict how working together can overcome hard times, but leading man Tom Keene's gee-whiz performance, and the needless subplot which has Barbara Pepper's Sally attempting to distract him from his mission, tend to derail the effort.Karen Morley is the star here. Her fine performance as Mary (weren't most good girls in movies of this era named "Mary"?), the faithful and enduring wife, keeps both the mission and the movie on track with her constancy and support.Also notable are John Qualen in his oft-portrayed "Swedish farmer" role, and Addison Richards as the shady character who becomes the commune's enforcer, but who makes a sacrifice for the common good.As one of the features of the film involves following a large field of corn from seedlings to stalks, one can but wonder how Hollywood got Nature to cooperate in the production by providing the right conditions at the proper times to advance the story toward the climax.Despite the flaws in acting and script, one has to admit that the ending is thrilling as the men work together and literally throw down their bodies to save the day. Still, if you want to watch a really good film on a similar subject, go see "The Good Earth," made three years later.