strike is hopeless, as the company will easily outlast the miners. She insists that the union is stronger than ever and asks Ramon why he can't accept her as an equal in their marriage. Both angry, they sleep separately that night. The next day the company evicts the Quintero family from their house. The union men and women arrive to protest the eviction. Ramon tells Esperanza that they can all fight together. The mass of workers and their families proves successful in saving the Quinteros' home. The company admits defeat and plans to negotiate. Esperanza believes that the community has won something no company can ever take away and it will be inherited by her children. Cast Professional actors Rosaura Revueltas as Esperanza Quintero Will Geer as Sheriff David Bauer as Barton (as David Wolfe) Mervin Williams as Hartwell David Sarvis as Alexander Non-professional actors Juan Chacón as Ramon Quintero Henrietta Williams as Teresa Vidal Ernesto Velázquez as Charley Vidal Ángela Sánchez as Consuelo Ruiz Joe T. Morales as Sal Ruiz Clorinda Alderette as Luz Morales Charles Coleman as Antonio Morales Virginia Jencks as Ruth Barnes Clinton Jencks as Frank Barnes Víctor Torres as Sebasatian Prieto E.A. Rockwell as Vance William Rockwell as Kimbrough Floyd Bostick as Jenkins and other members of Mine-Mill Local 890 Production The film was called 'subversive' and blacklisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it. The union had been expelled from the CIO in 1950, over the alleged domination of its leadership by communists. Director Herbert Biberman was one of the Hollywood screenwriters and directors who refused to answer the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1947 on questions of affiliation to the Communist Party USA. The Hollywood Ten were cited and convicted for contempt of Congress and jailed. Biberman was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution at Texarkana for six months. After his release he directed this film. Other participants who made the film and were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios include: Paul Jarrico, Will Geer, Rosaura Revueltas, and Michael Wilson. The producers cast only five professional actors. The rest were locals from Grant County, New Mexico, or members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 890, many of whom were part of the strike that inspired the plot. Juan Chacón, for example, was in real life