Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora,[4] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips[5] to portray the era of the Great Depression.[6][7]

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Image Entertainment 1999 DVD cover
Directed byPhilippe Mora
Written byPhilippe Mora
Produced byDavid Puttnam
Sandy Lieberson
Edited byJeremy Thomas
Production
company
Distributed byVisual Programme Systems Ltd.
Dimension Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
110 min.
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States[1][2]
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.4 million[3]

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.[8][9][10]

Cast

[11][12][13][14][15]

Accolades

1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film[21]

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.[18]

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. MIFF Archive:|MIFF 2023
  2. Contemporary American Independent Film - Google Books (pg.47)
  3. Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 297. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
  4. FilmAffinity
  5. Documentary Films - filmsite.org
  6. Turner Classic Movies
  7. MUBI
  8. TimeOut
  9. Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  10. Los Angeles Press on JSTOR (Vol. 12, Issue 578, 08-15-1975, pg.22)
  11. "'Can You Spare a Dime?' Evokes 1930's (Published 1975)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 June 2023.
  12. AllMovie Review
  13. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?-Library of Congress
  14. TV Guide
  15. Doblu.com
  16. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert
  17. AllMovie
  18. DVD Review on Trailers from Hell
  19. BFI
  20. Cummings, Larry B. (7 October 1975). "Breadlines and Grilled Millionaire". The Harvard Crimson.
  21. Golden Globes
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