Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk’s Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Length 114 minutes
Sam Wanamaker | Lea Padovani | Kathleen Ryan | Charles Goldner | Bonar Colleano | William Sylvester | George Pastell | Philo Hauser | Sid James | Karel Stepanek | Ina De La Haye | Rosalie Crutchley | Ronan O'Casey | Robert Rietti | Charles Moffat