A Crime to Fit the Punishment

This fascinating making-of documentary investigates the controversy and political atmosphere surrounding the production of Salt of the Earth, movingly chronicling the filmmakers' defiance of the blacklist. (BAM) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Director: Stephen Mack, Barbara Moss

Cast: Lee Grant, Paul Jarrico, Clinton Jencks, Virginia Jencks, Charles Coleman, Henrietta Williams, Michael Wilson, Sonja Dahl Biberman

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.