2007
May 2007
Thursday 31 May 2007
Thu 31 May, 7 pm. 3800 Kalmia Ave, Boulder, 80301. Linda Loewenstein, Executive Director, 303-447-3313, bjcf@qwest.net. Boulder Jewish Community Center - [events]
$5 for Boulder JCC members; $6 for non-members Directed by Martin Ritt Starring Ron Liebman, Sally Field When union organizer Reuben Warshovsky (Ron Leibman) arrives in a North Carolina mill town, he is greeted by open hostility from the Southern textile workers he's come to help. "You're all Communists or agitators or crooks or Jews or all four rolled into one," he's told by the father of the woman who will eventually help him achieve his goals. The triumphant title character is played by Sally Field in Martin Ritt's acclaimed film, loosely based on the real-life experiences of Crystal Lee Sutton, a mill worker turned union activist, and New York labor organizer Eli Zivkovich. This inspiring drama addresses women's liberation as well as the trade union m