It is an angry, radical movie about the vise that traps workers between big industry and big labor. Born today most popular celebs most popular celebs celebrity news. Richard pryors best dramatic performance is at the heart of blue collar, a rare american film that casts an unflinching look at the highpressure life of workingclass people. Richard pryor and harvey keitel star in paul schraders great, gritty 1970s drama, one of the rare hollywood films to tackle american labour. Overall a good movie with some good acting and a decent script. Mix play all mix movieclips classic trailers youtube the marilyn monroe story rare 1963 documentary duration. The film, which stars richard pryor, harvey keitel, and yaphet kotto, centers. Cowritten and directed by paul schrader after he wrote taxi driver this film tells the story of 3 detroit auto workers who seek to escape their drudgery and financial pressures by robbing from and then attempting to blackmail their corrupt union. This movie offers an interesting view how unions might have worked in the 70s when detroit and the midwest still had plenty of industrial jobs. I knew little about it going in, other than it was supposed to be a very well done, searing drama this. Crime, drama fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each mans end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. This crime drama film stars richard pryor, harvey keital, yaphet kotto and it documents union practices and life of the working class. Vista blue collar in video completo, guardare blue collar in hdtv progressive, trovare blue collar in film completo. Pryors character is particularly offputting by the end of the film, as his actions and words show that he is really a lowlife loser.
Rent blue collar 1978 film for free as part of our trial offer. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of sc by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Three guys, two africanamerican and one polish, work on the production line in a detroit. Blue collar featuring richard pryor and harvey keitel is streaming on starz.
Michaels ciminos the deer hunter is a big, awkward, crazily ambitious, sometimes breathtaking motion picture that comes as close to being a popular epic as any movie about this country since the godfather. With richard pryor, harvey keitel, yaphet kotto, ed begley jr when three workers try to steal from the local union, they discover the corruption of the union instead and decide to blackmail them. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. Patton oswalt who chose paul schraders first film as director blue collar. Blue collar is a film directed by paul schrader with richard pryor, harvey keitel, yaphet kotto, ed begley jr. Paul schrader and bobby byrne in blue collar 1978 richard pryor in blue. Blue collar tells the tale of three friends richard pryor, harvey keitel and. John said his dad worked hard at joy manufacturing, providing for his family. Blue collar really surprised me because i thought it was a richard pryor workplace comedy. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Having established himself as one of the key screenwriters of the 1970s, paul schrader moved into the directors chair with the 1978 blue collar, an exceptional political drama that pits three auto workers against their own corrupt union. Blue collar is a film that follows three average workers zeke richard pryor, jerry harvey keitel and smokey yaphet kotto, as they spend their days slaving away at a car manufacturing plant. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a workingclass rust belt enclave. The film, which stars richard pryor, harvey keitel, and yaphet kotto, centers around the lives of three blue collar hence the title auto workers on the assembly line in detroit.
Blue collar 1978 watch on starz or streaming online reelgood. Hear classic music from blue collar, 1978, directed by paul schrader, with lane smith, gloria delaney, gino ardito, at tcm. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. Blue collar is a 1978 film about three auto workers whose plot to break into the safe of their union results in little money, but a valuable ledger that reveals the unions illegal activities and ties to organized crime directed by paul schrader. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Acclaimed screenwriter paul schrader who wrote such films as taxi driver and raging bull made his directorial debut with this simmering story about three desperate detroit autoworkers played by pryor, harvey. Three workers, zeke, jerry and smokey, are working at a car plant and they are fedup with the conditions. Blue collar 1978 full hd movie the film revolves around a trio of detroit auto workers are fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass. Sein debut blue collar aus dem jahr 1978 wurde ein rieisger kritikererfolg, entstanden. Blue collar 1978 film sa prevodom online hd filmovi. Undated press photo actor harvey keitel in 1978 film blue. Blue collar richard pryor, harvey keitel and yaphet kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama, blue collar.
But the blue collar workforce and its employers still have to work out how europe. Anchor bay entertainment universal vault series spike lees essential film list release info february 10, 1978 color 114 minutes see more films from 1978 see more about this film on our blog comments 0 on amazon. Don was a blue collar buffalo guy in every definition of the term. Trailer for blue collar richard pryor, harvey keitel and yaphet kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama, blue collar. The plot of the blue collar involves three detroit auto workers that are tired of being mistreated by the company that they work for and the union. Blue collar 1978 r 0210 1978 us drama, crime 1h 54m user score. Heres the latest news and analysis from bloomberg economics to help take you through to the weekend. Blue collar 1978 directed by paul schrader genres drama. Blue collar proves yet again that paul schrader is one of the greatest, most underrated film makers out there. After recovery a few weeks later, the casket is sealed in a concrete vault which is then buried in the same grave. Because of the sensitivity of the subject no major auto company allowed this film to be shot at their factories, so the checker cab plant was used as the primary location. On blue collar, the 1976 classic about race and the.
Kaufen sie blue collar kampf am fliessband gunstig ein. It turned out to be a workplace drama, and for some sections of the film it really shines. It was not an antibosses film, neither was it an antiunion film, but a proworking man effort that singled out the corruption inherent in the system designed to keep the, well, blue collar types in their place, which was under the thumb of anyone, in management or otherwise, with any position of power over them. When detroit autoworkers zeke brown richard pryor, jerry bartowski harvey keitel and smokey james yaphet kotto decide to rob their own union, they are initially disappointed by the. The poster does a massive disservice to the film because this is one of the best american films from the 1970s. When zeke, jerry, and smokeythe three detroit autoworkers at the center of paul schraders blue collar 1978 make a plan to rob their union, they make it. Styx blue collar man original 1978 promo film youtube. Check member ratings, watch trailer of blue collar movie. Blue collar is a 1978 american crime drama film directed by paul schrader, in his directorial debut.
Blue collar is an ugly film, thematically and in terms of the situations its characters are forced into. Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each mans end. Blue collar proves yet again that paul schrader is one of the greatest, most underrated film makers. Blue collar they pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. Coupled with the financial hardships on each mans end, the trio hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Yaphet kotto is particularly good in the film and brings a real charm to his scenes as smokey. Its a crime and drama movie with a very high rotten tomatoes critics score of. Its not just subversive, but radicala true indictment of a capitalist system that divides to conquer. I dont much care for paul schraders films, but goddamn if blue collar, his 1978 directorial debut, isnt a bona fide masterpiece. The movie is playing at the noir city film festival at the music box theatre. Video archive for the film blue collar, which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 1978. It shows personal economic freedom and progress as a neverending cycle that results in nothing but further inequality and disenfranchisement from a country that allegedly fights against it. It dawns on them that their workers union is doing them no greater good than their.
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Blue collar dvd 1978 shop the best classic films movie. Undated press photo actor harvey keitel in 1978 film blue collar rkf6339 this is an original vintage 8 x 10 press photo of actor harvey keitel in 1978 film blue collar. Although he has reportedly since disowned the film, blue collar remains one of schraders best works, with zeke and jerry powered by the same sense of simmering frustration that would explode so effectively in. It was written by schrader and his brother leonard, and stars richard pryor, harvey keitel and yaphet kotto.