the comment on this film to date be some of the most intelligent and knowledgeable i have yet to read anywhere on the imdb site . even those who have little use for the ideology of the original hollywood ten writer and director present some view about the film itself that make sense . it be almost a if this drama within a movie production about another movie have take on a life of it own . i be particularly strike by the comment of people who actually know either the real character or the actor who portray them in this production . how often do one get to read that kind of material . truly impressive . the film itself be without much life and unfortunately . it look about as much like the real silver city a some place in south africa and with extra frequently stand around ogle the camera while goldblum et al . speechify . i know it be make in spain and but why . even the greyhound bus sign be completely bogus for it time . and there be very few real mexican american who look or act like spaniard and even the criollo descendant of new mexico colonist from the seventeenth century . my own grandfather be a member of the union who work the big copper pit near silver city . he would have laugh his head off at this lame depiction of the ongoing trouble between labor and management that be far more complex and life threaten than anything portray here . ( and continue to a less scale in the mine around here even today . ) the real gale sondergaard i will always remember a the quintessential german spy who scar the life out of me back in the early 40 .