Fiction
DVD
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
©1999
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
LANGUAGE
NOTES
Title from disc surface
A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954
Dolby digital sound
Features: chronology of the film's production and distribution; production photos; biographies; filmographies; theatrical trailer; editing and shooting notes; a history of the strike the film is based on accompanied by pictures; history of the Hollywood blacklist; Congressional testimony of the blacklisted filmmakers; the documentary "The Hollywood ten" (about blacklisted writers and directors who defied the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 and were imprisoned for contempt of Congress)
Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith; music, Sol Kaplan; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird
Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer
Filmed in New Mexico in 1953
DVD format