From the Bookshelf of Read the Movie…

[close] The Crucible is literary masterpiece that addresses the themes of individual freedom and society, relations between men and women, church and state. It is also a neat little history lesson about the 17th century Salem witch trials and the 1950s McCarthy period.

Miller wrote the screenplay and was on the set (along with his daughter Rebecca, who met, fell in love with and married actor Daniel Day Lewis, who played Proctor in the film).