Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.

Sam Wanamaker
as Geremio

Lea Padovani
as Annuziata

Kathleen Ryan
as Kathleen

Charles Goldner
as Luigi

Bonar Colleano
as Julio

William Sylvester
as Giovanni

George Pastell
as The lucy

Philo Hauser
as Head of Pig

Sidney James
as Murdin

Karl Stepanek
as Jaroslav