Salt of the Earth (1954)
Directed by Herbert J. Biberman
At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
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It’s at one and the same time a Catholic film because it shows us that human beings play with their lives, and every second, stage their own executions in one way or another, and it’s a Marxist film, more Marxist than Salt of the Earth because it shows the state of moral decadence of your people in a capitalist country.