Main Cast: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano, Charles Goldner
Release Year: 1949
Country: UK
Run Time: 120 minutes
Plot
On the outs in 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. Perhaps had it been made in Hollywood as intended, Give Us This Day would not have been allowed to run on for 120 minutes, nor would the actors have been permitted to indulge in terminal sanctimony. Based on Pietro di Donato's novel Christ in Concrete, Give Us This Day was released in the US under the intriguing title Salt to the Devil. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Alexander Vetchinsky - Art Director, Edward Dmytryk - Director, John Guthridge - Editor, Benjamin Frankel - Composer (Music Score), C.M. Pennington-Richards - Cinematographer, C. Pennington Richards - Cinematographer, Edward Dmytryk - Producer, N.A. Bronsten - Producer, Rod E. Geiger - Producer, Arthur Taksen - Set Designer, Ben Barzman - Screenwriter, Pietro DiDonato - Book Author