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Salt of the Earth (1954)
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth
Genres: History, Drama
Synopsis

The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.

Cast
Rosaura Revueltas
Juan Chacón
Will Geer
Will Geer
David Wolfe
David Wolfe
Mervin Williams
David Sarvis
Clinton Jencks
Virginia Jencks
Henrietta Williams
Ernesto Velázquez
Ángela Sánchez
Joe T. Morales
Clorinda Alderette
Charles Coleman
Víctor Torres
E.A. Rockwell
William Rockwell
Floyd Bostick
Crew
Herbert J. Biberman
Herbert J. Biberman
Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson
Ed Spiegel
Joan Laird
Paul Jarrico
Stanley Meredith
Leonard Stark
Sol Kaplan
Jules Schwerin
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