Steelyard Blues
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Director Alan Myerson Screenplay David S. Ward Duration Country United States | 5.6/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Crime Cinematography Laszlo Kovacs Writer David S. Ward Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date January 31, 1973 (1973-01-31) Cast Donald Sutherland (Jesse Veldini), Peter Boyle (Eagle Thornberry), Jane Fonda (Iris Caine), Howard Hesseman (Frank Veldini)Similar movies Peter Boyle appears in Steelyard Blues and Slither Tagline If you can't beat 'em ... drive 'em crazy! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Social misfits (Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle) with a World War II plane need some parts from the Navy to make it fly.
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Steelyard Blues is a 1973 comedy crime film starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda and Peter Boyle.
Tagline: If you cant beat em ... drive em crazy!
A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. There mode of transportation is a PBY flying boat. The only problem is that the PBY needs a lot of work and they will need jobs to pay for the parts. When they find that they have only 10 days before the PBY is sold for scrap, they decide on borrowing the parts for their trip
Plot
It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every possible car, but violates his parole when confronted by a 1950 Studebaker. This embarrasses his brother, a politically ambitious district attorney (Howard Hesseman, in an unlikely respectable role). Fonda plays a prostitute with an off-on relationship with Sutherlands character. The gang tries to get an old Consolidated PBY Catalina plane flying, and much humor ensues.
The film is notable for reprising the Fonda-Sutherland pairing, featured initially in the 1971 film Klute.
Cast
Similar Movies
Peter Boyle appears in Steelyard Blues and Slither. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland appear in Steelyard Blues and Klute. Jane Fonda appears in Steelyard Blues and Fun with Dick and Jane. Jane Fonda appears in Steelyard Blues and 9 to 5. David S Ward wrote the screenplay for Steelyard Blues and The Sting.
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