A Crime to Fit the Punishment (1982)
46 min
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.
- Release date
- May 1, 1982
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Lee Grant as Narrator
- Sonja Dahl Biberman as Self
- Esperanza Chacón as Self
- Juan Chacón as Self
- Charles Coleman as Self
- Paul Jarrico as Self
- Clinton Jencks as Self
Crew
- Herbert J. Biberman · Archive footage
- Roy M. Brewer Sr. · Archive footage
- Will Geer · Archive footage
- Stephen Mack · Director
- Barbara A. Moss · Director
- L.H. Whittemore · Writer
- Stephen Mack · Writer
- Barbara A. Moss · Writer
- Susana Shattuck · Writer
- Stephen Mack · Producer
- Barbara A. Moss · Producer
- Ted Churchill · Cinematographer
- Joseph Friedman · Cinematographer
- Paul Goldsmith · Cinematographer
- Stephen Mack · Editor