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Directed by King Vidor.
With Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper.
US, 1934, 35mm, black & white, 74 min.
Print source: HFA
With Karen Morley, Tom Keene, Barbara Pepper.
US, 1934, 35mm, black & white, 74 min.
Print source: HFA
Working with a cast that included relative unknowns, and eschewing the techniques and gloss of commercial production, Vidor created one of the few films to portray the impact of the Great Depression on working-class Americans. An urban couple decides to leave the city and take a chance on a plot of farmland bequeathed to them by an elder family member. They are eventually joined by several others who transform their modest plot into a thriving agricultural collective. No Hollywood studio would touch Vidor's overtly leftist drama, leaving him free to boldly confront the harsh financial realities of the period.
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