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Actors: Rosaura Revueltas, Will Geer, David Wolfe, Mervin Williams, David Sarvis
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Based on the events of an actual New Mexico mine strike, this film examines lives in a company town inhabited predominantly by Mexican-American workers. The miners struck to gain wage parity with white workers. It also looks at the changing role of women in family life through the eyes of family matriarch Esperanza (Revueltas).
This film is a pivotal part of the canon from blacklisted Hollywood and was controversial because of this as well as its subject matter – questioning mainstream ideas about race, class and gender. Geer, who plays the sheriff, was among those blacklisted actors.
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- union leaders fighting for labor rights
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- homemaker/wife
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southwest
Small town?
Yes
Style
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
Check here if B&W
Yes
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