SALT OF THE EARTH (1954)
🎶Let's drink to the hard-working people, Let's think of the lowly of birth Spare a thought for the rag taggy people, Let's drink to the salt of the earth Let's drink to the hard-working people, Let's drink to the salt of the earth Let's drink to the two thousand million, Let's think of the humble of birth 🎶 I waited both too long and at the same time for just the moment to watch Herbert J Biberman's Salt of the Earth, which is quite possibly the only "Blacklisted" film of the mid 1950's, though made exactly by Blacklisted filmmakers and the writer Michael Wilson to show America as well as the world "hey, *this* is what they are afraid of: the workers of the world!" While this is a film that would speak to me even seeing it as a younger person, it is so important to have these lessons and ideals in 2025 - under this rancid wart that occupies the White House, worker's rights and unions are under attack more than ever - and no...
