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Millions of Us

1935-01-01
7
en 16m
Drama
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.

Director

Tina Taylor

Director

Slavko Vorkapich

Writer

Gail West

Art Direction

George Buck

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • American Labor Films, Inc.