Movie Details
Original Language:Spanish
Production Companies:Divedco, Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico
The One with White Shanks
35 minDocumentary
The blacklisted American documentarian Willard Van Dyke filmed this tale about tobacco workers in the heart of the Puerto Rican countryside. Heeding their wives’ advice, individuals join forces in a cooperative so they can sell their crop of tobacco leaves at fair market value.
StarringAntonio Torres Martinó
DirectorWillard Van Dyke