Based on Pietro Di Donato's poetic novel Christ in Concrete, Give Us This Day is "a stylized and movingevocation of the hardships endured by immigrant Italian bricklayers in New Yorkat the turn of the century. Filmed in England when Dmytryk was still blacklisted,it is his most beautiful film. It has been little seen in the United States whereit was released as Salt to the Devil." (TA, NB) Sam Wanamaker stars asGeremio, who for the sake of his family takes a job at a safety-last buildingsite, resulting in a horrifying climax from which the book took its title.Dmytryk would gain notoriety as the only member of the Hollywood Ten to recantand resume his career. The screenplay is by Ben Barzman (see also The Boy WithGreen Hair, October 31) who would live and work in exile in France for 27 years.