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Blue Collar
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.
1978 · Directed by Paul Schrader · 114 min · Drama · Crime · 19 frames
Tagline
"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.
Crew
- Screenplay: Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader
- Cinematography: Bobby Byrne
- Edited by: Tom Rolf
- Music: Jack Nitzsche
- Production design: Lawrence G. Paull
- Produced by: Don Guest
Cast
- Richard Pryor as Ezekiel 'Zeke' Brown
- Harvey Keitel as Jerry Bartowski
- Yaphet Kotto as Sam 'Smokey' James
- Ed Begley Jr. as Bobby Joe
- Harry Bellaver as Eddie Johnson
- George Memmoli as Jenkins
- Lucy Saroyan as Arlene Bartowski
- Lane Smith as Clarence Hill
- Cliff DeYoung as John Burrows
- Borah Silver as Dogshit Miller
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: TAT Communications Company, Universal Pictures
- Budget: $1,700,000
- Box office: $6,521,083
- Themes: factory worker, robbery, blackmail, drinking, union, detroit, michigan, blue collar worker, vending machine, car factory, assembly line
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