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A Crime to Fit the Punishment

8.0198246mMovieDocumentary

This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

DirectorsBarbara Moss·Stephen Mack
WritersL.H. Whittemore·Susan Shattuck

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Cast · Directed by Barbara Moss

LGLee Grant
Lee Grant
Narrator
PJ
Paul Jarrico
Self
CJ
Clinton Jencks
Self
VJ
Virginia Jencks
Self
CC
Charles Coleman
Self
HW
Henrietta Williams
Self
MWMichael Wilson
Michael Wilson
(Voice)
SB
Sonja Dahl Biberman
Self
JCJuan Chacón
Juan Chacón
Self
JS
Jules Schwerin
Self
ÁS
Ángela Sánchez
Self
SK
Sol Kaplan
Self

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