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Director:
F.W. Murnau
Writers:
H.H. Caldwell (titles)
Katherine Hilliker (titles)
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Release Date:
16 February 1930 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Plot:
Lem goes to Chicago to sell the wheat his family has grown on their farm in Minnesota. There he meets the waitress Kate... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Charles Farrell ... Lem Tustine
Mary Duncan ... Kate
David Torrence ... Lem's father
Edith Yorke ... Lem's mother
Anne Shirley ... Marie Tustine (as Dawn O'Day)
Tom McGuire ... Matey
Richard Alexander ... Mac
Patrick Rooney ... Butch (as Pat Rooney)
Ed Brady ... Reaper
Roscoe Ates ... Reaper
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eddie Boland
Mark Hamilton ... Hungry reaper
Ivan Linow ... Taxi driver
Arnold Lucy ... Cafe patron
Helen Lynch ... Girl on train
Jack Pennick ... Reaper
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams ... Reaper
Marjorie Beebe ... Waitress (silent version) (uncredited)
Joe Brown ... Cafe patron (silent version) (uncredited)
Harry Gripp ... (silent version) (uncredited)
Werner Klingler ... (silent version) (uncredited)
Harry Leonard ... (silent version) (uncredited)

David Rollins ... (silent version) (uncredited)
William Sundholm ... (silent version) (uncredited)
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Directed by
F.W. Murnau 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
H.H. Caldwell  titles
Katherine Hilliker  titles
Elliott Lester  dialogue (play "The Mud Turtle")
Marion Orth  writer
Berthold Viertel  writer

Original Music by
Arthur Kay 
 
Cinematography by
Ernest Palmer 
 
Film Editing by
H.H. Caldwell 
Katherine Hilliker 
 
Production Design by
Edgar G. Ulmer 
 
Art Direction by
Harry Oliver 
 
Costume Design by
Sophie Wachner 
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Frank Powolny .... assistant director
William Tummel .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Harold Hobson .... sound
 
Other crew
William Fox .... presenter
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Our Daily Bread (USA) (working title)
Il nostro pane quotidiano (Italy) [it]
L'intruse (France) [fr]
La Bru (France) (silent version) [fr]
Unser täglich Brot - Die Frau aus Chicago (Germany) [de]
Unser täglich Brot... (Austria) [de]
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Runtime:
77 min | Canada:120 min | USA:90 min (silent version)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono | Silent
Filming Locations:
Athena, Oregon, USA more
Company:
Fox Film Corporation more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Director F.W. Murnau wanted the title of the film to be "Our Daily Bread". After differences with the producers he left, and an assistant director finished it. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Each time when 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 in the background. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Days of Heaven (1978) more

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The intruder, 20 November 2008
9/10
Author: dbdumonteil

This is the next to last work by Murnau and ,like most of his movies,it should not be missed.Using the same actors as Frank Borzage in "The River" ,he tells us a story which could still happen today.The sexually repressed boy,under an over possessive dad's -looking sometimes like a patriarch from the Bible- thumb ,whose wife is treated like dirt (by her in-law)or as a sexual object (by the farm workers) ,is a character we can meet every day even in 2008.In "The river" Mary Duncan warmed up Charles Farrell's body with her own body.In "city girl" she did again ,metaphorically.

Admirable scenes:

-the scene of the breakfast (the bread) which segues into that one in the eating-house.

-the arrival in the country house,the warm welcome of the mother and the harshness of the master.

-all the scenes with the boy and the workers where he realizes he is not a man like them.Perhaps the great director was opening up in these scenes which predate other works (Minnelli's "Tea and Sympathy" ,and in France Miller's "La Meilleure Façon de Marcher"):Murnau was gay and felt ashamed of it.

People who are allergic to silent movies ,you can enjoy Murnau's films:they do not need the sound,they have everything.

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