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Overview
Millions of Us (1935) is an early example of American labor-left filmmaking that experiments with enacted forms, anticipating Frontier Films’s renowned People of the Cumberland (1938) and Native Land (1942). Produced surreptitiously in Hollywood in 1934-5, the film dramatizes the plight of millions of unemployed workers amidst the Depression. This message is filtered through the story of a single “forgotten man” who walks the streets in desperate search of a job. Driven by hunger, he contemplates becoming a scab. A union man intervenes, coaching him to recognize common interests with his brethren. He is ultimately converted to the cause of trade unionism.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1935
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Director
- Tina Taylor,Slavko Vorkapich
- Writer
- Gail West
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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