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 by	Philippe Mora
Written by	Philippe Mora
Produced by	David Puttnam Sandy Lieberson
Edited by	Jeremy Thomas
Production company	Goodtimes Enterprises
Distributed by	Visual Programme Systems Ltd. Dimension Pictures (US)
Release date	1975 (1975)
Running time	110 min.
Countries	United Kingdom United States[1][2]
Language	English
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

• The Andrews Sisters
• Fred Astaire
• Warner Baxter
• Jack Benny
• Busby Berkeley
• Willie Best
• Humphrey Bogart
• George Burns
• James Cagney
• Cab Calloway
• Eddie Cantor
• Hobart Cavanaugh
• George Chandler
• Charlie Chaplin
• Winston Churchill
• Betty Compson
• Gary Cooper
• Bing Crosby
• Frankie Darro
• Cecil B. DeMille
• Marlene Dietrich
• John Dillinger
• Walt Disney
• James Dunn
• Cliff Edwards
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Bill Elliot
• Madge Evans
• Stepin Fetchit
• W. C. Fields
• Dick Foran
• Gerald Ford
• Clark Gable
• Benny Goodman
• Cary Grant
• Woody Guthrie
• Gabby Hayes
• Billie Holiday
• Herbert Hoover
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Paul Robeson
• Shirley Temple

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Selected films featured

• King Kong^[16]
• I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang^[17]
• Citizen Kane^[16]
• Wild Boys of the Road^[18][19]
• The Roaring Twenties^[18]
• American Madness^[18]
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington^[18]
• Gold Diggers of 1933^[20]
• Lady Killer^[20]
• G Men^[20]

Accolades

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

Home media

A DVD from Image Entertainment was released in 1999 and again in 2018 by Artiflix.

It was also released 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.