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equality of expression and of strike participation with the men. And it is along this line of contention that Michael Wilson's tautly muscled script develops considerable personal drama, raw emotion and power." Crowther called the film "a calculated social document". Michael Wilson, who worked under a
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injunction to the union, meaning any miners who picket will be arrested. Taking advantage of a loophole, the wives picket in their husbands' places. Some men dislike this, seeing it as improper and dangerous. Esperanza is forbidden to picket by Ramón at first, but she eventually joins the line while
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The next day the company evicts the Quintero family from their house. The union men and women arrive to protest the eviction. Ramón tells Esperanza that they can all fight together. The mass of workers and their families proves successful in saving the Quinteros' home. The company admits defeat and
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The sheriff, by company orders, arrests the leading women of the strike. Esperanza is among those taken to jail. When she returns home, Ramón tells her the strike is hopeless, as the company will easily outlast the miners. She insists that the union is stronger than ever and asks Ramón why he can't
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praised the film because of the way people were portrayed doing the real work of unions. According to Chomsky: "he real work is being done by people who are not known, that's always been true in every popular movement in history...I don't know how you get that across in a film. Actually, come to
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workers go on strike, but the company refuses to negotiate and the impasse continues for months. Esperanza gives birth and, simultaneously, Ramón is beaten by police and jailed on bogus assault charges following an altercation with a union worker who betrayed his fellows. When Ramón is released,
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is, in substance, simply a strong pro-labor film with a particularly sympathetic interest in the Mexican-Americans with whom it deals....But the real dramatic crux of the picture is the stern and bitter conflict within the membership of the union. It is the issue of whether the women shall have
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vigilantes fired rifle shots at the set, the film's leading lady Rosaura Revueltas was deported to Mexico, and from time to time a small airplane buzzed noisily overhead ... The film, edited in secret, was stored for safekeeping in an anonymous wooden shack in Los Angeles."
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for six months. After his release he directed this film. Other participants who made the film and were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios include: Paul Jarrico, Will Geer, Rosaura Revueltas, and Michael Wilson.
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Esperanza tells him that he's no good to her in jail. He counters that if the strike succeeds they will not only get better conditions right now but also win hope for their children's futures.
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really did it. It was a long time ago, but at the time I thought that it was one of the really great movies—and of course it was killed, I think it was almost never shown."
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of the film. After its opening night in New York City, the film languished for 10 years because all but 12 theaters in the country refused to screen it.
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plans to negotiate. Esperanza believes that the community has won something no company can ever take away and it will be inherited by her children.
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think of it, there are some films that have done it. I mean, I don't see a lot of visual stuff, so I'm not the best commentator, but I thought
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style, the producers and director used actual miners and their families as actors in the film. In 1992, the film was added to the
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in the few years after its American release. The story of the film's suppression, as well as the events it depicted, inspired an
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Brief Descriptions and Expanded Essays of National Film Registry Titles | Film Registry | National Film Preservation Board
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The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America
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sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the
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Library. Document maintained on server by Gary Handman, Head, Media Resources Center. Accessed: August 17, 2013.
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With McCarthyism in full force at the time of release, the Hollywood establishment did not embrace the film.
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in 1954, panned it as a simplistic left-wing "morality play" and said it was "as clear a piece of Communist
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Director Herbert Biberman was one of the Hollywood screenwriters and directors who refused to answer the
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reported that 100% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on eleven reviews.
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accept her as an equal in their marriage. Both angry, they sleep separately that night.
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Scott Henkel and Vanessa Fonseca. "Fearless Speech and the Discourse of Civility in
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that it is the 12th November as that is the onomásticos of persons named Esperanza.
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Salt of the Earth Special Edition LaserDisc, Rare LaserDiscs, Criterion LaserDiscs
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The Ladies Auxiliary of the International Union of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers
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A fictionalized account of the movie's production featured prominently in the
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social and political point of view. Its plot centers on a long and difficult
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for some years afterwards, later won an Academy Award for the screenplay of
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The producers cast only five professional actors. The rest were locals from
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commissioned the production. The music was written by David Bishop and the
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On July 27, 1999, a digitally restored print of the film was released in
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For the 2014 film about the works of photographer Sebastião Salgado, see
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by Organa through Geneon (Pioneer), and packaged with the documentary
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for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
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is named after the film. The pro-labor institution (not a college
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By one journalist's account: "During the course of production in
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and want decent working conditions equal to those of white, or "
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Academie du Cinema de Paris: International Grand Prize; 1955.
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The film was called 'subversive' and blacklisted because the
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in 1953, the trade press denounced it as a subversive plot,
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The drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the
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in 1950, over the alleged domination of its leadership by
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selected the film for preservation in the United States
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Organization of American Historians Magazine of History
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The Marxist and the movies: a biography of Paul Jarrico
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Award for Best Picture, Herbert J. Biberman, received
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International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers
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I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
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article and references for research by Michael Selig
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Opens at the Grande -- Filming Marked by Violence,"
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Index

The Salt of the Earth (2014 film)

Herbert J. Biberman
Michael Wilson
Paul Jarrico
Rosaura Revueltas
Will Geer
David Wolfe
Sol Kaplan
drama film
Michael Wilson
Herbert J. Biberman
Paul Jarrico
blacklisted
Hollywood
establishment
communist
feminist
strike
1951 strike
Empire Zinc Company
Grant County, New Mexico
neorealist
National Film Registry

New Mexico
Name Day
Mexican-Americans
Anglo
unionized

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