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The One with White Shanks
January 1 1955 (almost 70 years ago)Rating
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- Director: Willard Van Dyke
- Writer: José L. Vivas Maldonado
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 35 m
- Country: Puerto Rico
- Companies: Film Unit of the Division of Community Education, Puerto Rico, Divedco
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.
