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===Portrayals in media=== [[John Sayles]]' ''[[Return of the Secaucus 7]]'' (1980) includes a wry homage to ''Salt of the Earth''. When the reunited [[baby boomer]] characters are briefly jailed, they reminisce about their radical college days when they were locked up in a [[Secaucus]], [[New Jersey]] jail and chanted "We want the formula! We want the formula!" to bewildered guards. The guards didn't realize it was an allusion to a ''Salt of the Earth'' scene in which the picketing Mexican-American women are arrested and thrown in jail. Esperanza has her infant child with her, and all the women chant "We want the formula!" to pressure the sheriff to either bring formula for the hungry baby or let them out of jail. He opts for the latter.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Suppression of ''Salt of the Earth'': How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/221088316|id={{ProQuest|221088316}} |date=August 2000 |pages=380β382 |via=ProQuest |last=Doherty |first=Thomas |journal=Labor History |volume=41 |issue=3}}</ref> A documentary titled ''A Crime to Fit the Punishment'', about the making of the film, was released in 1982 and directed by Barbara Moss and Stephen Mack.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/recording/iz1499?nns=IZ1499 |title=A Crime To Fit The Punishment: an interview with the filmmakers |publisher=Pacifica Radio Archives |via=Internet Archive |last=Rosenberg |first=Mimi |date=7 October 1982 |access-date=10 October 2024}}</ref> The title comes from a Paul Jarrico quote regarding the blacklistees who formed Independent Productions Corporation: "I have said that ''Salt of the Earth'' was our chance to really say something in film, because we had already been punished, we had already been blacklisted. I used the phrase, 'We wanted to commit a crime to fit the punishment.'"<ref name=Jarrico_interview/> The documentary premiered on May 1, 1982 in Silver City, New Mexico, with many of the surviving ''Salt of the Earth'' cast and crew members in attendance.<ref>{{cite news |title=Reunion Recalls Movie on Hispanic Strikers Made at the Time of Film Blacklist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/03/us/reunion-recalls-movie-on-hispanic-strikers-made-at-time-of-film-blacklist.html |date=3 May 1982 |page=A16 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> A [[Drama (film and television)|film drama]], also based on the making of ''Salt of the Earth'', was chronicled in ''[[One of the Hollywood Ten]]'' (2000). It was produced and directed by [[Karl Francis]], starred [[Jeff Goldblum]] and [[Greta Scacchi]], and was released in European countries on September 29, 2000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |newspaper=The New York Times |date=11 January 2002 |title=Back to an Era of Slurs, Paranoia and Persecution |access-date=22 November 2007 |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9E00E5D91139F932A25752C0A9649C8B63&oref=slogin }}</ref> A fictionalized account of the movie's production figured prominently in the [[Audible (service)|Audible]] [[podcast]] series, [[The Big Lie (2022)|''The Big Lie'' (2022)]]. Based on source material written by Paul Jarrico, the production features voice performances from [[Jon Hamm]], [[Kate Mara]], [[Ana de la Reguera]], [[Bradley Whitford]], [[John Slattery]], [[Giancarlo Esposito]], and [[David Strathairn]], and was written by [[John Mankiewicz]] and Jamie Napoli.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=2022-06-01 |title=Audible Drops Trailer for 'The Big Lie' Podcast Drama Starring Jon Hamm, Set in '50s Hollywood Blacklist Era |url=https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/big-lie-podcast-trailer-jon-hamm-audible-1235282432/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Big-Lie-Podcast/B09X25HB5R |title=The Big Lie |bibcode=1950Sci...112R.475K |language=en|last1=Kleitman |first1=Nathaniel |journal=Science |year=1950 |volume=112 |issue=2912 |page=475 |doi=10.1126/science.112.2912.475 |pmid=14781822 |s2cid=9356643 }}</ref>
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