Blue Collar (1978)
"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.
114 min
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.
- Release date
- February 10, 1978
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $1,700,000
- Box office
- $6,521,083
Trailer
Cast
- Richard Pryor as Zeke
- Harvey Keitel as Jerry
- Yaphet Kotto as Smokey
- 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 De Young as John Burrows
- Borah Silver as Dogshit Miller
Crew
- Paul Schrader · Director
- Paul Schrader · Writer
- Leonard Schrader · Writer
- Sydney A. Glass · Writer
- Don Guest · Producer
- Jack Nitzsche · Composer
- Bobby Byrne · Cinematographer
- Tom Rolf · Editor
- Vic Ramos · Casting director
- Lawrence G. Paull · Production designer