Steelyard Blues

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Crime
1/31/1973
93

If you can't beat 'em ... drive 'em crazy!

A group of misfits decide to leave for a place that they can all be free. Their 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

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  • Wuchak

    Oddball drama about outcasts (Sutherland, Boyle and Fonda) starts shaky, but finds its footing

    A group of misfits in the Oakland area hang out in a junkyard and an abandoned airstrip. They come up with the harebrained scheme of repairing a PBY Catalina flying boat and escaping their troubles. Donald Sutherland plays the black sheep brother of a district attorney (Howard Hesseman) while Jane Fonda is on hand as a high-priced prostitute sorta romanced by the former. Meanwhile Peter Boyle plays an eccentric bloke who used to work in the circus. John Savage is also on hand.

    "Steelyard Blues" was shot in 1971, but not released until 1973. Sutherland & Fonda were an item after the success of Klute (1971), but this one understandably...

    November 29, 2020

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