Blue Collar - Kampf am Fließband

Originaltitel: Blue Collar

1978
16
1 Std. 54 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

11.503

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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Dark Comedy Crime Drama

Als drei Arbeiter versuchen, die örtliche Gewerkschaft zu bestehlen, entdecken sie stattdessen die Korruption der Gewerkschaft und beschließen, sie zu erpressen.Als drei Arbeiter versuchen, die örtliche Gewerkschaft zu bestehlen, entdecken sie stattdessen die Korruption der Gewerkschaft und beschließen, sie zu erpressen.Als drei Arbeiter versuchen, die örtliche Gewerkschaft zu bestehlen, entdecken sie stattdessen die Korruption der Gewerkschaft und beschließen, sie zu erpressen.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,5/10

11.503

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

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- 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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It was a very tense shoot, because Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel argued constantly. There were fights, verbal abuse, walk-offs, and Mexican stand-offs. According to Paul Schrader, Pryor punched Keitel and hit Kotto with a chair during filming.

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Whenever the actors use air powered tools, the tools just spin in mid-air.

Zitate
[last lines]
Smokey James: [voiceover echoing earlier line] They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place.

Verbindungen
Featured in At the Movies: Special Show: At the Cassette Store, Part 3 (1986)

Soundtracks
Hard Workin Man
Music by Jack Nitzsche
Lyrics by Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder and Paul Schrader
Performed by Don Van Vliet (as Captain Beefheart)

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An unjustly overlooked classic!

This is a great film. I knew little about it going in, other than it was supposed to be a very well done, searing drama (this according to several film books, including Leonard Maltin's yearly tomes). I was not disappointed. Paul Schrader - writer of "Taxi Driver," "Raging Bull," and writer/director of "Affliction" - delivers yet another gritty, working-class drama. But the film is not without liberal doses of humor, provided chiefly by Richard Pryor in what I consider to be the best performance of his career. C'mon, people! How can you go wrong with Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto (answer: you can't). The films hooks you right from the great opening credit sequence and doesn't let go 'til the final freeze-frame. I won't give the twists and turns of the plot away, but the film centers on three desperate Detroit auto workers and their corrupt union. It's very disappointing this film is so overlooked today (it also flopped when released)... the level of acting and direction (this was Schrader's directorial debut) is astonishing. See this movie!