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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0014381020328
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2003
Running Time: 116 minutes
Sales Rank: 77650
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1949
Editorial Review:
Description:
In 1939, novelist Pietro di Donato wrote an incendiary novel called Christ in Concrete, a bestseller and Book of the Month selection about Italian-American immigrants working the construction trade in New York at the onset of the Great Depression. This work of hard-edged social criticism, filled with closely observed naturalist detail and gifted poetry, was turned into an extraordinary motion picture in 1949 by blacklisted filmmaker Edward Dmytryk. Part neorealist, part melodrama, part film noir, it won top awards at festival across Europe but was all but banned in the United States. Also known as Give Us This Day and Salt to the Devil, Christ in Concrete was suppressed, lost, and almost forgotten, but it remained Dmytryk's personal favorite and became a holy grail to dedicated film fans. Now with the participation of the di Donato family, this vital film is back in this deluxe DVD edition!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Major Disappointment!
I am a big fan of Edward Dymtryk and expected to see in this film a hard hitting film noir combined with class conscious, social realism (as the DVD copy advertises). Something like Dymtryk 's Crossfire, if not a variation on Last Exit to Brooklyn. But this is plotwise a maudlin melodrama focusing on a failed marriage between a bricklayer and an Ialian immigrant he efectively tricks into marrying him by lying to her that he owns a house (her one condtion for marriage to him). She is a classic ... Read More
Rating:  - Backbone for America
This film was on Hollywood's blacklist & had been totally lost until recently. Based on Pietro Di Donato's novel it is the story of Southern Italians who came to America to secure jobs, family, and home.....the American dream.
Set in the 1920's this black and white DVD is the story of the young men who were the bricklayers for the buildings in New York. It takes place over several years, and begins with a traditional Italian wedding. The struggles these Italians endured in the ... Read More
Rating: - Christ in Concret
Hollywood has never shown much dedication to social realism, and when it has it's usually set it within the context of crime and criminality. If it takes place in an urban setting the movie is about gangsters, in non-urban settings it cowboys gathering around a lynching. John Ford's 1940 `The Grapes of Wrath' is an exception that proves the rule. So it shouldn't be much of a surprise that Edward Dmytryk's powerful CHRIST IN CONCRETE (1949) was filmed in England, during a period in his career when ... Read More
Rating: - NOT THE FILM VERSION OF THE NOVEL
This terrible film is called "Give Us This Day" NOT "Christ in Concrete" and there's a reason for that. It is NOT the film version of Pietro di Donato's classic novel, Christ in Concrete, but a film version of the novel's backstory (a sort of prequel). Unfortunately, Christ in Concrete has NEVER been made into a film.
Rating:  - truly a classic
Although I thought the movie was less controversial in content than what the title and the description suggest, I thoroughly enjoyed this film. The subject matter, which explores one man's downfall during the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s, has already been discussed in American films and novels, such as Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. What is very different about this film, however, is the dark and un-Hollywood way in which the protaganist meets his destiny. There's ... Read More
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