Name: The Inheritance
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1964
Cast: Robert Ryan

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Comedy

Release Date

Jan 1964

Premiere Information

New York opening: 8 Nov 1964

Production Company

Mayer-Sklar Productions

Distribution Company

Harold Mayer

Country

United States

Synopsis

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the film traces the growth of the American labor movement from immigrant arrival at Ellis Island through union participation in the civil rights struggle of the sixties. Focusing on the garment industry, the documentary exposes conditions in the sweatshops and ghettos of New York, Chicago, and Rochester, and depicts the police brutality accompanying protest. Among the labor martyrs eulogized are the strikers Charles Lazinskas, Samuel Kapper, Ida Brayman, and the ten Chicago Republic Steelworkers murdered while marching on Memorial Day, 1937. Union champions represented include Jane Addams of Hull House, Mrs. Raymond Robins of the Women's Trade Union League, Harold Ickes, Sidney Hillman, Clarence Darrow, Fiorello LaGuardia, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.