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Steelyard Blues (1972)

Director: Alan Myerson

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From Time Out Film Guide

Perhaps the best American comedy since The President's Analyst, mainly because its humour is never imposed, but allowed to develop from the situations in which the characters find themselves. Demolition derby fanatic Sutherland teams up with a gang of junkyard misfits, including Boyle as a nut who dresses up and takes off movie actors, plus Fonda as the inevitable hooker, and they set about resurrecting an old seaplane with the idea of flying away from it all. Humour and paranoia go hand in hand, before the film spirals off into fantasy. There's enough to suggest that it considers itself an allegory on dark America, but this remains sufficiently deadpan to take or leave. Otherwise it's just very funny, full of moments of irrelevant humour. Good soundtrack too, from Nick Gravenites and Paul Butterfield. An impressive first film.

Author: CPe 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • peewee said...
    Posted on Feb 15 2009 17:05 We saw this at a midnight showing back in the 70s. There was so much MJ smoke in the air that we thought maybe the only reason we laughed so hard was that we had a contact high. So we rented it years later, watched w/o benefit of any substances. Still hilarious.
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Cast & crew

Director: Alan Myerson

Producer: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips

Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow, Howard Hesseman, John Savage full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 93 mins


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