Blue Collar

E49200
American film crime drama film film

Blue Collar is a 1978 American crime drama film directed by Paul Schrader that explores the struggles and corruption faced by auto workers in Detroit.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Blue Collar canonical 8
Goin' to Work era 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American film ⓘ
crime drama film ⓘ
film ⓘ
basedOn original screenplay ⓘ
castMember Borrah Minevitch ⓘ
Cliff DeYoung ⓘ
George Memmoli ⓘ
Harry Bellaver ⓘ
Harvey Keitel ⓘ
Lane Smith ⓘ
Lucy Saroyan ⓘ
Richard Pryor ⓘ
Yaphet Kotto ⓘ
cinematographer Bobby Byrne ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
director Paul Schrader ⓘ
distributor Universal Pictures ⓘ
editor Tom Rolf ⓘ
filmingLocation Detroit ⓘ
Kalamazoo ⓘ
surface form: Kalamazoo, Michigan
genre crime drama ⓘ
crime film ⓘ
drama film ⓘ
hasTheme class struggle ⓘ
disillusionment with the American Dream ⓘ
exploitation of workers ⓘ
mainSubject auto workers ⓘ
labor corruption ⓘ
labor unions ⓘ
working-class struggles ⓘ
musicBy Jack Nitzsche ⓘ
narrativeFocus economic hardship ⓘ
race relations in the workplace ⓘ
union corruption ⓘ
notableFor Paul Schrader's directorial debut ⓘ
originalLanguage English ⓘ
producer Don Guest ⓘ
productionCompany Tamarine Productions ⓘ
releaseDate 1978-02-10 ⓘ
releaseYear 1978 ⓘ
runtimeMinutes 114 ⓘ
screenwriter Leonard Schrader ⓘ
Paul Schrader ⓘ
settingLocation Detroit ⓘ
Michigan ⓘ
settingTime 1970s ⓘ
stars Harvey Keitel ⓘ
Richard Pryor ⓘ
Yaphet Kotto ⓘ

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Richard Pryor → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Detroit Pistons → notableEra → Blue Collar ⓘ
this entity surface form: Goin' to Work era
Harvey Keitel → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Paul Schrader → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Don Guest → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Leonard Schrader → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Leonard Schrader → wroteScreenplayFor → Blue Collar ⓘ
Lucy Saroyan → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ
Cliff DeYoung → notableWork → Blue Collar ⓘ