A Crime to Fit the Punishment

1982 • Directed by

Barbara Moss

Documentary

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

5/1/1982

Rating

0.0/10

Cast

Lee Grant

Narrator

Paul Jarrico

Self

Clinton Jencks

Self

Virginia Jencks

Self

Charles Coleman

Self

Henrietta Williams

Self

Michael Wilson

(Voice)

Sonja Dahl Biberman

Self

Crew

L.H. Whittemore

Writer

Susan Shattuck

Writer

Barbara Moss

Writer

Stephen Mack

Editor

Becca Wilson

Location Assistant

Stephen Mack

Writer

Barbara Moss

Editor

Nan Allendorfer

Research Assistant

Paul Goldsmith

Director of Photography

Joseph Friedman

Director of Photography