Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (film)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips to portray the era of the Great Depression.[1][2]

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Image Entertainment 1999 DVD cover
Directed byPhilippe Mora
Produced byDavid Puttnam
Sandy Lieberson
Written byPhilippe Mora
StarringWalt Disney
Bing Crosby
Charlie Chaplin
Andrews Sisters
Fred Astaire
Shirley Temple
Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Edited byJeremy Thomas
Production
company
Distributed byVisual Programme Systems Ltd.
Dimension Pictures (US)
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
110 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish

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.[3]

Cast

Accolades

1976: Nominated-Golden Globe Award for Best Documentary Film [10]

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.[9]

References
  2. Brother Can You Spare A Dime ? Vintage Original Movie Poster 1975-eBay
  3. TimeOut
  4. NY Times
  5. AllMovie Review
  6. BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?-Library of Congress
  7. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movie Review| Roger Ebert
  8. AllMovie
  9. DVD Review on Trailers from Hell
  10. Golden Globes
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