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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/
Publisher: Covert Action
Date Written: 24/10/2024
Year Published: 2024
Resource Type: Article
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.
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