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...more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober, admirably realistic investigation of the futility of the back-to-the-soil movement among Manhattan's literati, it is written with honesty and humor, acted with understanding, made exciting by King Vidor's intelligent direction. Good shot: Taka, Tony Barrett's absconding Japanese houseboy, tiptoeing across a field of snow...
California's Upton Sinclair began a week of three-minute, three-a-day personal appearances at a Hollywood theatre. Occasion : The showing of the cinema Our Daily Bread (TIME, Oct. 8) on which he collaborated slightly with Director King Vidor. Purpose: To chip about $2,000 off the debts incurred in his campaign for Governor. He proved a poor attraction...
...Daily Bread" the cinema becomes socially conscious and treats with a theme that is truly proletarian. In an attempt to give a "powerful" treatment to a story of the common man harassed by truly gigantic economic forces, King Vidor has an obvious sincerity. Because of this notable sincerity and the courage of the theme itself, one is loathe to level the criticism of triteness against "Our Daily Bread." But sympathetic as one may be to such a sudden nobility in movie subjects, and we do believe this to be genuinely sincere, it is hard to see any symptoms of masterpiece...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's hold interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Reviewed in this issue...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's bold and excellent interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Depicts the back-to-the-farm movement in a moving and vivid style. Also "Kansas City Princess"--Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrel in another of their mildly amusing and risque pictures...