Blue Collar (1978)
"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.
1978 · R · 1h 54m · Drama, Crime
Genres: Drama, Crime
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Director: Paul Schrader
Writers: Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader
Music by: Jack Nitzsche
Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
Editor: Tom Rolf
Box office: $7M · Budget: $2M · Rated 7.3/10 by 211 viewers
Cast
Richard Pryor as Ezekiel 'Zeke' BrownHarvey Keitel as Jerry BartowskiYaphet Kotto as Sam 'Smokey' JamesEd Begley Jr. as Bobby JoeHarry Bellaver as Eddie JohnsonGeorge Memmoli as JenkinsLucy Saroyan as Arlene BartowskiLane Smith as Clarence HillCliff DeYoung as John BurrowsBorah Silver as Dogshit MillerChip Fields as Caroline BrownHarry Northup as HankMore like this
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