Our Daily Bread

6/13/2022

Despite having a pretty lacklustre cast, this is still quite a watchable story of grit and determination set during the American depression. John Qualen ("Chris") - more frequently seen in the more eccentric supporting roles of John Wayne movies - stops by the farm of Tom Keene ("Tom") and "Mary" (Karen Mosley) who have fled the city in the hope of making a new life for themselves on an old farm owned by her uncle. He is invited to stay to help them, and they gradually they realise that by helping each other they can accomplish more, and more efficiently too, so establish a co-operative of locals and out-of-work visitors. The precision involved in their marvellous ditch digging scene proves that point effectively as they must quickly divert a nearby stream (that assumes rather Ganges-like