Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? ***½ (1975, director Philippe Mora) – Classic Movie Review 11,653

The 1975 documentary film Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is an extremely well done and enjoyable view of America in the Great Depression era, built up (by French Australian film director Philippe Mora, working for the British production company Goodtimes Enterprises) in a freewheeling, impressionistic compilation of 1930s cinema newsreel and clips from movies of the day, taking us from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The pictures tell their own story, so it is good that there is no commentary or enforced viewpoint.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is produced by Sandy Lieberson and David Puttnam.

Films featured in clips include King Kong, I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Citizen Kane, Wild Boys of the Road, The Roaring Twenties, American Madness and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

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