What is Blue Collar / "Doc" about?

Name: Blue Collar / "Doc"
Genre: Drama

BLUE COLLAR, 1978, Universal, 114 min. Dir. Paul Schrader. Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto are three auto plant workers and best friends who are less than happy with their severely corrupt union. When their nocturnal burglary of the union’s safe nets cash, but a startling revelation of cooked books -- kickbacks, payoffs and collusion with organized crime - their lives become a nightmare of paranoia. "DOC," 1971, MGM Repertory, 95 min. The only western from director Frank Perry is a radical deconstruction of American heroes as admired icons. Working from respected newspaperman and author Pete Hamill’s script, director Perry torches the mythologized take on Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) and Doc Holliday (Stacey Keach). Earp is the revered lawman (portrayed as a deeply flawed manipulator with political aspirations) and Holliday is the gambler loyal to his friend (shown as an ambivalent, tormented man unable to sustain relationships).

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What is Blue Collar / "Doc" about?: BLUE COLLAR, 1978, Universal, 114 min. Dir. Paul Schrader. Harvey Keitel, Richard Pryor and Yaphet Kotto are three auto plant workers and best friends who are less than happy with their severely corrupt union. When their nocturnal burglary of the union’s safe nets cash, but a startling revelation of cooked books -- kickbacks, payoffs and collusion with organized crime - their lives become a nightmare of paranoia.

"DOC," 1971, MGM Repertory, 95 min. The only western from director Frank Perry is a radical deconstruction of American heroes as admired icons. Working from respected newspaperman and author Pete Hamill’s script, director Perry torches the mythologized take on Wyatt Earp (Harris Yulin) and Doc Holliday (Stacey Keach). Earp is the revered lawman (portrayed as a deeply flawed manipulator with political aspirations) and Holliday is the gambler loyal to his friend (shown as an ambivalent, tormented man unable to sustain relationships).