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Salt of the Earth was asking for trouble. Written, produced and directed by three of Hollywood's blacklisted fellow travelers-Michael Wilson, Paul Jarrico and Herbert Biberman-the picture was sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (expelled from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated...
When production started near Silver City, N. Mex. (pop. 7,000), the townspeople rioted and warned the moviemakers to get out of town before they were shipped out "in black boxes" (TIME, March 16, 1953). Under police protection, Jarrico & Co. kept shooting until the leading lady, Mexican Actress Rosaura Revueltas, was deported as an illegal alien...
Three days after Salt of the Earth's premiere, the tradesheet Variety posed an interesting problem: Will Salt, if shown in theaters overseas, give the Communists ready-ground propaganda with which to pepper the U.S.? Since Jarrico & Co. are independent of the powerful Motion Picture Association, they are free to show the film wherever bookings can be had (i.e., with non-M.P.A. foreign distributors). First scheduled foreign showing of Salt of the Earth: in Mexico City, this month...
...film was being sponsored by the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, which was ousted from the C.I.O. in 1950 for being Communist-dominated. Director of the picture: Herbert Biberman, one of Hollywood's "unfriendly ten" (TIME, May 31, 1948). Director's assistants: Paul Jarrico and Paul R. Perlin (both were called Communists at hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee). Heading the production: Clinton Jencks, international representative of the I.U.M.M.S.W...
Hughes issued an icy reply: "Mr. Jarrico, these are times of national emergency ... I do not think the public should be forced to guess or conjecture as to whether a man is a Communist. I think the public is entitled to know ..." When Jarrico remained adamant, Hughes publicly dared the guild to call a strike at RKO. The guild turned down the dare...