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Eureka Entertainment releases
THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, Martin Ritt’s sharp espionage thriller set in Cold War-era East Germany and starring Richard Burton, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as part of The Masters of Cinema Series this Monday (May 17th), and we have three copies to give away! Read on for details of how to enter…
The acclaimed, best-selling novel by John le Carré, about a Cold War spy on one final dangerous mission in East Germany, is transmuted by director Martin Ritt (Hud, Norma Rae) into a film every bit as precise and ruthless as the book.
Review of the 1954 movie Salt of the Earth
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin / May 6th, 2021
Poster promoting the theatrical premiere of the 1954 American film Salt of the Earth at a (now demolished) theater on 86th Street in Manhattan. Mexican actress Rosaura Revueltas, who played the leading role, is shown.
Born in controversy but then ignored in its youth, the film
Salt of the Earth has matured beautifully into a classic film in the neorealist style. Set in Zinc Town, New Mexico, a mining community with a majority of Mexican-Americans, strike for working conditions equal to those of the white, or “Anglo” miners. The town and the mine is run by Delaware Zinc Inc. who refuse to negotiate with the workers and the strike goes on for months. The story focuses on Ramon Quintero (Juan Chacón) and his wife Esperanza Quintero (Rosaura Revueltas) who is pregnant with their third child. Ramon is arrested by police and beaten in prison at the same time his wife gives birth to their new b