| 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 |
| Edited by | Jeremy Thomas |
| Production company | Goodtimes Enterprises |
| 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 |
| Box office | $1.4 million |
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.
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.
Cast
- 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
- Paul Robeson
- Shirley Temple
Selected films featured
- King Kong
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
- Citizen Kane
- Wild Boys of the Road
- The Roaring Twenties
- American Madness
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- Gold Diggers of 1933
- Lady Killer
- G Men
Accolades
1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film
Home media
A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix.
It was also released on DVD and Blu-Ray via The Sprocket Vault.
See also
All This and World War II, a similar 1976 'scrapbook' documentary about World War II scored to music of the Beatles.
References
- MIFF Archive:|MIFF 2023
- Contemporary American Independent Film – Google Books (pg.47)
- Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 297. ISBN 978-0-8357-1776-2. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
- FilmAffinity
- Documentary Films – filmsite.org
- Turner Classic Movies
- MUBI
- TimeOut
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
- Los Angeles Press on JSTOR (Vol. 12, Issue 578, 08-15-1975, pg.22)
- Eder, Richard (8 August 1975). "'Can You Spare a Dime?' Evokes 1930's (Published 1975)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2023.
- AllMovie Review
- BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?-Library of Congress
- TV Guide
- Doblu.com
- ^ Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert
- AllMovie
- ^ DVD Review on Trailers from Hell
- BFI
- ^ Cummings, Larry B. (7 October 1975). "Breadlines and Grilled Millionaire". The Harvard Crimson.
- Golden Globes
External links
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? at IMDb
- Official website
- Promo on Sprocket Vault's official YouTube channel
| Films directed by Philippe Mora | |
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- 1975 films
- British documentary films
- Documentary films about United States history
- Great Depression films
- 1975 documentary films
- Films directed by Philippe Mora
- Compilation films
- American collage films
- British collage films
- Dimension Pictures films
- American documentary films
- 1970s English-language films
- 1970s American films
- 1970s British films
- 1975 independent films
- American independent films
- British independent films
- English-language documentary films
- English-language independent films