In the early 1950s, when McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist had taken a ... in a showdown against evil threats to the community. Other powerful films from the fearless director/producer Kramer, ...

a Hungarian immigrant who has managed to find middling success writing monster movies as a hack screenwriter. He is gay and Jewish, and this is the McCarthy era in Hollywood so danger and betrayal ...

From the late 1940s to 1950s, anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others gripped the nation ... The decline in progressive films, in turn, made society more conservative.

SEE ALSO: Carrie (1976), a different take on suburban-outcast horror.

Salt of the Earth (1954) is the revenge of a group of blacklisted directors, screenwriters, and actors on McCarthyism and Hollywood ... highly unusual for the 1950s.