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Summaries. When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail. Three workers, Zeke ( Richard Pryor ), Jerry ( Harvey Keitel ), and Smokey ( Yaphet Kotto ), are working at a car plant and drinking their ...
Directed by Paul Schrader. With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto. US, 1978, 35mm, color, 114 min. Print source: HFA. Turn it off? Are you kiddin' baby? Took me three years to pay for that muthafucka. We gonna watch everything they show on it.
By Tim Pelan. Paul Schrader got the chance to direct his first film after the success of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, the script of which Schrader cranked out in a week, laying bare his feelings of loneliness in the underbelly of the city that never sleeps. Blue Collar(1978), the subject he chose to both direct and write, was about three ...
Apr 7, 2011 · Blue Collar (1978)—which screens in a new print at Music Box this Friday and Saturday at midnight—was Schrader’s first film as director. It’s no less schematic than his later work: the ...
Blue Collar. Directed by: Paul Schrader. Starring: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto. Genres: Drama, Crime, New Hollywood. Rated the #10 best film of 1978, and #808 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
The movie is “ Blue Collar ,” and stars Kotto, Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel as workers on a Detroit assembly line. It's an angry film, a radical one, and yet bursting with humor and life at the same time. And for Yaphet Kotto, who has lingered on the edge of stardom in movies like “Across 110th Street” and “Drum,” it's a personal ...
And you haven't shit for a steward, Hill! - Clarence Hill: Maybe you don't belong in this union! - Zeke: Maybe you're right!”. Lane Smith - Clarence Hill. Richard Pryor - Zeke. [Tag: denial, misunderstanding ] Blue Collar quotes: the most famous and inspiring quotes from Blue Collar. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by ...
