Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)
| Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? | |
|---|---|
 Image Entertainment 1999 DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Philippe Mora |
| Written by | Philippe Mora |
| Produced by | David Puttnam Sandy Lieberson |
| Starring | Walt Disney Bing Crosby Charlie Chaplin Andrews Sisters Fred Astaire Shirley Temple Eleanor Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Edited by | Jeremy Thomas |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Visual Programme Systems Ltd. Dimension Pictures (US) |
Release date |
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Running time | 110 min. |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips to portray the era of the Great Depression.[1][2]
Summary[]
The film serves as a nostalgic and evocative scrapbook of the Depression from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Attack on Pearl Harbor.[3]
Cast[]
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- The Andrews Sisters
- Fred Astaire
- Warner Baxter
- Jack Benny
- Busby Berkeley
- Willie Best
- Humphrey Bogart
- George Burns
- James Cagney
- Cab Calloway
- Eddie Cantor
- Hobart Cavanaugh
- George Chandler
- Charlie Chaplin
- Winston Churchill
- Betty Compson
- Gary Cooper
- Bing Crosby
- Frankie Darro
- Cecil B. DeMille
- Marlene Dietrich
- John Dillinger
- Walt Disney
- James Dunn
- Cliff Edwards
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Bill Elliot
- Madge Evans
- Stepin Fetchit
- W. C. Fields
- Dick Foran
- Gerald Ford
- Clark Gable
- Benny Goodman
- Cary Grant
- Woody Guthrie
- Gabby Hayes
- Billie Holiday
- Herbert Hoover
- J. Edgar Hoover
- Shirley Temple
Selected films featured[]
- King Kong[7]
- I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang[8]
- Citizen Kane[7]
- Wild Boys of the Road[9]
- The Roaring Twenties[9]
- American Madness[9]
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington[9]
Accolades[]
1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film[10]
Availability[]
A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix.
It is available on DVD and Blu-Ray via The Sprocket Vault.[9]
See also[]
All This and World War II, a similar 1976 'scrapbook' documentary about World War II scored to music of the Beatles.
References[]
- ^ [1]
- ^ Brother Can You Spare A Dime ? Vintage Original Movie Poster 1975-eBay
- ^ TimeOut
- ^ NY Times
- ^ AllMovie Review
- ^ BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?-Library of Congress
- ^ a b Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert
- ^ AllMovie
- ^ a b c d e DVD Review on Trailers from Hell
- ^ Golden Globes
External links[]
Categories:
- 1975 films
- English-language films
- British films
- British documentary films
- Documentary films about United States history
- Great Depression films
- 1975 documentary films
- Films directed by Philippe Mora
- Compilation films
- Collage film
- American documentary films
- American films
- Dimension Pictures films