Salt of the Earth (1954)

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   senorroboto

   It's amazing to think that this film, for its sins of promoting gender equality and how to stand up to unsafe work environments and unsanitary living conditions via organized labor, suffered the following fate:
   
   

   • FBI investigated its financing
   • Film set was shot at by anti-Communist vigilantes
   • Lead actress was deported to Mexico
   • American Legion boycotted
   • Film labs were told to not to work on it and unionized projectionists instructed not to show it
   • Only screened by 12 theaters nationally

   
   
   It's one of the most compassionate and moving films I've ever seen. Highly recommend. 4 years 3 months ago
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   SpacePauls

   I watched this movie 70 years after it was made and large capital is still being bastards to the working class. Nothing has changed. 2 years 2 months ago
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   andype

   Great movie, with all these non-prof actors! I've really enjoyed this picture. Today it is barely possible to show this one in USA of Trump. 7 years ago

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