Kid Blue

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Kid Blue
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Directed by James Frawley
Written by Bud Shrake
(as Edwin Shrake)
Produced by Marvin Schwartz
Starring Dennis Hopper
Warren Oates
Peter Boyle
Ben Johnson
Cinematography Billy Williams
Edited byStefan Arnsten
Music by Tim McIntire
John Rubinstein
Color process Color by DeLuxe
Production
company
Marvin Schwartz Productions
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date
  • May 1973 (1973-05)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2 million [1]

Kid Blue is a 1973 American Comedy Western film directed by James Frawley and starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Lee Purcell, Peter Boyle and Ben Johnson.

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Plot

Bickford Waner, who has failed as a train robber, decides to go straight and get an honest job. He arrives in Dime Box, Texas, to find work. He is befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly. Molly seduces Bickford into getting her pregnant and making her husband miserable.

Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto tracks him down and reveals to Reese and Molly that Bickford is a train robber known as Kid Blue. Bickford returns to his old ways and plots a crime.

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References

  1. Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN   978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 257