Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
- factory
- based on novel or book
- alabama
- based on true story
- single mother
- union
- labor
- labor organizer
- labor union
- workers union
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Barbara Baxley — Leona
- Gail Strickland — Bonnie Mae
- Morgan Paull — Wayne Billings
- Robert Broyles — Sam Bolen
- John Calvin — Ellis Harper
- Booth Colman — Dr. Watson
- Lee de Broux — Lujan
- James Luisi — George Benson
- Vernon Weddle — Reverend Hubbard
- Gilbert Green — Al Landon
- Bob Minor — Lucius White
- Directed
- Martin Ritt
- Written
- Harriet Frank Jr., Irving Ravetch
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 211 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Martin Ritt Productions, Rose and Asseyev Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
