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A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
- Reaper
- (as Guinn Williams)
Anne Shirley
- Marie Tustine
- (as Dawn O'Day)
Patrick Rooney
- Butch
- (as Pat Rooney)
Marjorie Beebe
- Waitress
- (uncredited)
Eddie Boland
- Reaper
- (uncredited)
Joe Brown
- Cafe Patron
- (uncredited)
Harry Gripp
- Reaper
- (uncredited)
Mark Hamilton
- Greasy the Reaper
- (uncredited)
Werner Klingler
- Reaper
- (uncredited)
Charles Lane
- Man at Train Station
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaDirector F.W. Murnau wanted the title of the film to be "Our Daily Bread", but the studio refused. Murnau's working title was the title used in several European countries' distribution.
- GoofsEach time Lem's father, Kate, and Mac storm out of the farmhouse after Kate bandages Mac's hand, the shadow of the screen door moves across the "sky" backdrop.
- Alternate versionsThere is a silent version, shot by F.W. Murnau, and a part-talkie sound version, with music and parts re-shot by two directors hired by the studio, after Murnau's refusal to do so. The sound version is now considered lost. The silent version was restored and edited in DVD and Blu-Ray with an original score added in August 2008.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Murnau, Borzage and Fox (2008)
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Fascinating, especially as a social document
True, it isn't "Sunrise" (what is?) and it isn't even the complete silent version as Murnau envisioned it, but it's still a beautifully expressive film from one of the great masters. What's more, it's the only film I've ever seen which pinpoints a pivotal moment in American history (it seems to be set before the Crash). One thing that precipitated the Great Depression was the squeeze on farmers, who had no profit margin at all, and whose only recourse was to plant more and more, unwittingly worsening their own situation. One of the conflicts is that Charles Farrell is sent to the city to sell the wheat crop at the most advantageous price (and this is a desperate necessity), and not only fails to do so but comes home with a (perhaps unsuitable) new wife. The family patriarch has planted the farm in wheat right up to the front door, and even reprimands his little girl for picking a stalk of it to play with. They are drowning in a product everybody needs but which barely supports them, and on which they are completely dependent. The contrast between an agricultural America far from idyllic and a motorized city whose drudgery for most is at least as bad is redeemed by the awakening of human feelings and re-ordered priorities. Nothing will save these people but love and family.
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- Also known as
- Our Daily Bread
- Filming locations
- Athena, Oregon, USA(Verified via newspaper article published August 1928- THE ATHENA PRESS)
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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