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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Format: DVD
- Release Date: 17/10/2017

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
- Director: Philippe Mora
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 106 minutes
- Year of Release: 1975
- UPC: 688474357150
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Brother Can You Spare A Dime? is the chronicle of an unforgettable piece Depression history - twelve crazy, painful see-saw years, from the Wall Street crash to Pearl Harbor. By juxtaposing contemporary news and documentary footage with extracts from Hollywood classics such as "Golddiggers," "Lady Killer" and "Wild Boys of the Road," director Philippe Mora offers us an immediate, intricate and evocative scrapbook of the 1930's. Somehow there are uncanny echoes of some of our current preoccupations: strikers at Ford's, mass unemployment, breadlines, vigilante gangs and failing fortunes... Two heroes emerge: James Cagney, the rough diamond, hood-with-a-heart-of-gold star of the Movies, the little man who won't be beaten, and Franklin D. Roosevelt himself: tough yet benign, stepping into the breach with confidence and determination, yet imperceptibly crumpling under the weight of responsibility as he leads America through her most difficult years until the final humiliation of Pearl Harbor. Songs and images stick in the mind: fortunes dwindle, the small man's savings disappear, even the Banks go bust; men lose their jobs and join the breadlines to the haunting title song of "Brother, can you spare a dime?"; hobos and oakies take to the road while Bessie Smith sings "Nobody loves you when you're down and out"; a ragged child huddles against the bleak landscape as Woody Guthrie sings the "Dustbowl Blues"; an abandoned cat shivers on the ledge of a flooded home... Only Hollywood offers an escape from reality for these are the Golden Years of Bogart, Cooper and Dietrich. We glimpse Gable and Vivien Leigh at the screen test of "Gone with the Wind"; George Raft dances a languorous tango with Carole Lombard; Shirley Temple dimples and Chaplin jokes while Busby Berkeley fills the screen with his lavish extravaganzas... and the marathon dancers stumble on... As Ginger Rogers says: "It's the Depression, dearie... "
Credits
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CreditsLaVerne Andrews
Maxene Andrews
Patty Andrews
Fred Astaire
Warner Baxter
Wallace Beery
Brooks Benedict
Constance Bennett
Jack Benny
Busby Berkeley
Irving Berlin
Willie Best
Herman Bing
Joan Blondell
Humphrey Bogart
Fanny Brice
Joe E. Brown
James Burke
James Cagney
Cab Calloway
Eddie Cantor
Hobart Cavanaugh
George Chandler
Charles Chaplin
Spencer Charters
Winston Churchill
Mae Clarke
Betty Compson
Gary Cooper
Jackie Cooper
Joan Crawford
Bing Crosby
Frankie Darro
William B. Davidson
Cecil B. DeMille
Marlene Dietrich
Walt Disney
Marie Dressler
Tom Dugan
Margaret Dumont
James Dunn
Irene Dunne
Jimmy Durante
Nelson Eddy
Cliff Edwards
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bill Elliott
Madge Evans
Alice Faye
Stepin Fetchit
W.C. Fields
Errol Flynn
Dick Foran
Gerald Ford
Preston Foster
Kay Francis
Clark Gable
Greta Garbo
Judy Garland
Janet Gaynor
George Gershwin
Benny Goodman
Cary Grant
Woody Guthrie
Oliver Hardy
Jean Harlow
George "Gabby" Hayes
Katharine Hepburn
Billie Holiday
Herbert Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
Bob Hope
William Hopper
Hubert H. Humphrey
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DirectorsPhilippe Mora