At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and unequal wages compared to their Anglo counterparts. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but he is shown to be a hypocrite by treating his pregnant wife, Esperanza, with a similar unfairness. When an injunction stops the men from protesting, however, the gender roles are reversed, and women find themselves on the picket lines while the men stay at home.
Salt of the Earth is a Drama, History film released in 1954.
5 subtitle releases available in English.
Movie Dialogue Sample
00:31:27,317 --> 00:31:29,193
- My name is Quintero.
520
00:31:29,402 --> 00:31:30,402
Mr. Quintero.
521
00:31:33,448 --> 00:31:34,968
- Are you going to
let us pass, or do I
522
00:31:35,033 --> 00:31:37,702
have to call the sheriff?
523
00:31:37,911 --> 00:31:39,151
- There's nothing stopping you.
524
00:31:44,667 --> 00:31:45,835
I was wrong.
525
00:31:46,044 --> 00:31:47,563
They don't want Jenkins
for general manager.
526
00:31:47,587 --> 00:31:48,587
They want me!
527
00:31:54,510 --> 00:31:55,905
- You should have
heard that fellow.
528
00:31:55,929 --> 00:31:56,929
What a line.
529
00:31:56,971 --> 00:31:58,251
I was up for a foreman, he says.
530
00:31:58,306 --> 00:32:00,391
Fijate!
531
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,600
What's the matter?
532
00:32:01,643 --> 00:32:03,186
- It's nothing.
533
00:32:03,394 --> 00:32:04,437
Just a little catch.
534
00:32:04,646 --> 00:32:04,979
Papa!
535
00:32:05,188 --> 00:32:06,397
Papa!
536
00:32:06,606 --> 00:32:07,106
Over here!
537
00:32:07,315 --> 00:32:08,399
- Is that Luis?
538
00:32:08,608 --> 00:32:10,109
What is he doing,
playing hooky again?
539
00:32:14,530 --> 00:32:16,741
Luis, come back here!
540
00:32:16,950 --> 00:32:19,702
Papa, we seen the
two scabs over there!
541
00:32:19,911 --> 00:32:21,663
- They're hiding over
there in the gully!
542
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,088
- Hold it, brothers!
543
00:32:30,296 --> 00:32:31,941
You, Antonio, Alfredo,
Cente, come with me.
544
00:32:31,965 --> 00:32:33,841
The rest of you
stay on the line.
545
00:32:36,928 --> 00:32:37,971
Luis!
546
00:32:38,179 --> 00:32:40,223
Ramon!
547
00:33:06,165 --> 00:33:07,208
That's them over there!
548
00:33:07,417 --> 00:33:08,417
There they go!
549
00:33:34,861 --> 00:33:35,861
- Prieto!
550
00:33:38,448 --> 00:33:39,490
Sebastian Prieto.
551
00:33:39,699 --> 00:33:40,699
- Ramon, listen to me.
552
00:33:40,825 --> 00:33:41,492
For the love of God...
553
00:33:41,701 --> 00:33:43,077
- You?
554
00:33:43,286 --> 00:33:44,286
You?
555
00:33:44,328 --> 00:33:45,079
I'd expect it of an Anglo, yes...
556
00:33:45,288 --> 00:33:45,955
- Ramon, I'm in a jam.
557
00:33:46,164 --> 00:33:47,164
I had to get a job.
558
00:33:47,248 --> 00:33:48,791
- You Judas!
559
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:49,584
Bloodsucker!
560
00:33:49,792 --> 00:33:51,210
- Ramon, my kids...
561
00:33:51,419 --> 00:33:52,170
- Tu!
562
00:33:52,378 --> 00:33:53,588
Traidor a tu gente!
563
00:33:53,796 --> 00:33:54,380
Rompehuelga!
564
00:33:54,589 --> 00:33:55,590
Desgraciado!
565
00:33:55,798 --> 00:33:57,158
- My kids don't
have enough to eat.
566
00:33:57,216 --> 00:33:58,861
- You think my kids have
enough to eat, you rat?
567
00:33:58,885 --> 00:33:59,552
- I know it's wrong.
568
00:33:59,761 --> 00:34:00,470
Just let me go.
569
00:34:00,678 --> 00:34:01,179
I'll leave town.
570
00:34:01,387 --> 00:34:03,097
Just let me go!
571
00:34:03,306 --> 00:34:06,809
- You think I was
gonna work you over?
572
00:34:07,018 --> 00:34:09,520
I wouldn't dirty
my hands on you.
573
00:34:17,111 --> 00:34:18,111
- Papa!
574
00:34:25,036 --> 00:34:25,787
- Luis!
575
00:34:25,995 --> 00:34:26,788
The baby!
576
00:34:26,996 --> 00:34:28,247
Get the women, quick!
577
00:34:34,879 --> 00:34:37,507
- Why do you stop?
578
00:34:37,715 --> 00:34:39,300
- Want to have a
little talk with you,
579
00:34:39,509 --> 00:34:41,552
why you slugged that
fella back there.
580
00:34:41,761 --> 00:34:42,553
- But that's a lie.
581
00:34:42,762 --> 00:34:45,389
I didn't.
582
00:34:45,598 --> 00:34:49,560
- Now you know that's no
way to talk to a white man.
583
00:34:49,769 --> 00:34:51,270
- Oh, no, no!
584
00:34:51,479 --> 00:34:56,025
Go back and get a blanket, you
idiots, so we can carry her!
585
00:34:56,234 --> 00:34:58,402
- Hey, Vance, I thought you
said this bullfighter was
586
00:34:58,611 --> 00:34:59,779
full of pepper.
587
00:34:59,987 --> 00:35:01,739
Don't look so peppery now.
588
00:35:01,948 --> 00:35:02,948
- Oh, but he is.
589
00:35:02,990 --> 00:35:04,617
He's full of chili, this one.
590
00:35:04,826 --> 00:35:05,576
- Unh!
591
00:35:05,785 --> 00:35:07,328
- He likes it hot.
592
00:35:07,537 --> 00:35:10,581
His chiquita makes it good and
hot for him, don't she, Pancho?
593
00:35:10,790 --> 00:35:13,000
Aaah!
594
00:35:13,209 --> 00:35:14,529
- Sheriff, we need
a doctor quick.
595
00:35:14,627 --> 00:35:16,067
There's a woman
going to have a baby.
596
00:35:16,212 --> 00:35:19,507
- What do you take me
for, an ambulance driver?
597
00:35:19,715 --> 00:35:20,925
- There's a company doctor.
598
00:35:21,134 --> 00:35:23,719
We don't have a car...
If you'll just get him.
599
00:35:23,928 --> 00:35:25,096
- Are you kidding?
600
00:35:25,304 --> 00:35:27,024
Company doctor won
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