Blue Collar (1978)

Director: Paul Schrader

Writer(s): Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader

Starring: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lucy Saroyan, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Harry Northup, Leonard Gaines, Milton Selzer, Sammy Warren, Jimmy Martinez, Jerry Dahlmann, Denny Arnold, Rock Riddle, Stacey Baldwin, Steve Butts, Stephen P. Dunn, Speedy Brown, Davone Florence, Eddie Singleton, Ava Singleton, Vermettya Royster, Jaime Carreire, Victoria McFarland, Gloria Delaney, Rosa Flores, Crystal McCarey, Debra Fay Walker, Gino Ardito, Sean Fallon Walsh, Vincent Lucchesi, Jerry Snider, Colby Chester, Donl Morse, William Pelt, Tracey Walter, Almeria Quinn, Lee McDonald, Rodney Lee Walker, Vincent Di Paolo, Jeannine Oppewall, Jimmy Williams

Synopsis: Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their wives to have some fun they get the idea to rob the local union’s bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only 600 dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some ‘hot’ material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason for that is the union itself. All three are provoked by the fact that the union claims to have lost 10,000 dollars by their robbery.

Release Date: February 10, 1978 (USA) | Length: 114 min | Genre: Crime, Drama | Certificate: R

Note: Richard Pryor and Chip Fields have (3) children in the film. I assume from the cast list that they are Frazier, Ali and Aretha Brown, but several times Aretha is referred to as Gloria and there is no character named Gloria on the cast list. Also, the names of the two boys listed in the credits aren’t said in the film. The names Zeke gives to the IRS man are Gale and Sugar Ray.

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