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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569753136
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 22440
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
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Description:
A group of misfits decide to refurbish a plane and use it to fly to a deserted island where they can live free of societal judgments and rules.
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Rating:  - Lost Gem
A film not for everyone. Early previews of stardom to come, Donald Sutherland is great as an off-beat criminal genius on a quest. Howard Hessman as one of his brothers, the "Good" brother, and John Savage as the little brother. Jane Fonda is great as the love interest. And the Great Peter Boyle as "The Eagle". Black comedy at its best!
Rating:  - What can these people possibly be thinking?
Don't get me wrong--I think Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, and especially Peter Boyle are wonderful, talented actors. But Steelyard Blues is easily in the top five worst movies ever. For a movie to be truly horrid, it can't just have a plot that is either pointless or idiotic (or both). Nor can it merely have wooden acting. A really bad movie must also have a soundtrack bad enough to be discarded by both elevators & telephone hold lines. Steelyard Blues is an easy trifecta.
There is no story. Donald Sutherland doesn't do any work, except that he loves to drive in demo derbies. For no apparent reason (for the movie plot or the viewer), Sutherland is on "probation" to Howard Hessman, who plays Sutherland's brother and a district attorney. What Hessman being a district attorney has to do with anything is also beyond this movie. Jane Fonda is a prostitute, who is Sutherland's sometime girlfriend--but also (seemingly) has sex with Hessman. Peter Boyle once worked in a "circus" (I guess), where he learned how to be a "human fly." It must have been this same circus that taught Boyle how to magically remove bullets from guns, and do invisible "ninja" travel in black pajamas. Those circus people!
Supposed hijinks ensues when Sutherland decides to restore an old airplane, instead of getting a job. Boyle agrees to help, along with the usual gang of idiots--one of whom always has an electric guitar around his neck, even though he never plays it.
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Rating: - Finally a cult I want to join
Fonda, Sutherland, and Peter Boyle make this an unforgettable cult film. It captures the wacky counter- cultural sixties-seventies anti-hero perfectly - an urban Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Liondrops keep falling on my head (see film to get reference).
Rating: - Woefully Overlooked Counter-Culture Screwball Comedy
When this film was released on national teevee, the network, in its infinite wisdom (or something) decided that we wouldn't want to watch a film with a title so irrelevant to what they perceived as the main thrust of the film, and so they retitled it "The Final Crash" -- i assume it was because the main character (Donald Sutherland as Veldini) is a demolition derby driver when he isn't in jail (he was in jail for robbing gas stations in order to pay for the demolition derby driving habit...).
This, of course, is almost irrelevant to the main themes of the film, except as it is to be seen as one more example of a free spirit trammeled 'round by petty mundanity, i guess.
That aside, this is a nice little surreal comedy about a group of non-conformist types who want to fly away and a society that cannot tolerate their oddnesses nor grant them the freedom to opt out, as personified in Veldini's brother, DA "Veldin" (Howard Hesseman, against type as an uptight Establishment politician), who hopes to run for Governor and *doesn't* need his wacko brother making his name a laughingstock again.
Representing the Forces of Freedom (or at least Absurdity) along with Sutherland as Veldini are Peter Boyle as Eagle, a self-defined lunatic who does a wicked Brando impression, and Jane Fonda as Iris Caine, childhood friend of the Veldinis, now a high-priced callgirl (keep an eye on her highball glass full of ice...).
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Rating: - Steelyard Blues
Steelyard Blues, with Fonda, Sutherland, and Boyle (C1973) was arguably one of the most hysterical cult movies ever made. I saw it several times when it first came out. Unfortunately, Jane Fonda was having problems with her North Viet Nam excursion at that time and the movie never was promoted as it should have been. If you think Peter Boyle is great on Raymond, please availe yourself of his talent over a quarter of a century ago. An absolutely must see.
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