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Celebrating the 70th Anniversary of Salt of the Earth
Rampell, Ed
http://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/10/24/celebrating-the-70th-anniversary-of-salt-of-the-earth/Date Written: 2024-10-24 Publisher: Covert Action Year Published: 2024 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25205 In many ways, 1954's Salt of the Earth is a singular, cinematic phenomenon, one of the most unique American movies ever made. At a time when star-driven Hollywood was cranking out widescreen biblical epics, technicolor musicals, sci-fi and horror B pictures for drive-ins, Westerns, comedies, as well as films starring highly trained "Method" actors, Salt featured a largely nonprofessional cast in a story about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. These non-actors played versions of themselves—miners who had struggled in a recent, real-life strike. Subject Headings |