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Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader in his directorial debut. Written by Schrader and his brother Leonard, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. The film is both a critique of union practices and an examination of life in a working-class Rust Belt enclave.
- February 10, 1978 (United States)
- Don Guest
Feb 10, 1978 · Blue Collar: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr.. 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.
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- Paul Schrader
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- Crime, Drama
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Paul Schrader's Blue Collar offers a searing, darkly funny indictment of labor exploitation and rampant consumerism that's fueled by the outstanding work of an excellent cast. Read Critics...
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“Blue Collar” is about life on the Detroit assembly lines, and about how it wears men down and chains them to a lifetime installment plan. It is an angry, radical movie about the vise that traps workers between big industry and big labor.
Sep 5, 2017 · Pop Culture. On ‘Blue Collar,’ the 1976 Classic About Race and the Working Class. In Paul Schrader’s unheralded gem, Richard Pryor and Harvey Keitel play Detroit autoworkers who rob their own...
- K. Austin Collins
Three workers, Zeke ( Richard Pryor ), Jerry ( Harvey Keitel ), and Smokey ( Yaphet Kotto ), 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.
Overview. 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. Paul Schrader. Director, Screenplay. Leonard Schrader.
