A Crime to Fit the Punishment

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.

Director: Stephen Mack

Cast

Lee Grant

Narrator

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Paul Jarrico

Self

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Clinton Jencks

Self

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Virginia Jencks

Self

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Charles Coleman

Self

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Henrietta Williams

Self

Michael Wilson

(Voice)

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Sonja Dahl Biberman

Self