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Kid Blue

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Kid Blue
Directed byJames Frawley
Written byBud Shrake
(as Edwin Shrake)
Produced byMarvin Schwartz
StarringDennis Hopper
Warren Oates
Peter Boyle
Ben Johnson
CinematographyBilly Williams
Edited byStefan Arnsten
Music byTim McIntire
John Rubinstein
Color processColor by DeLuxe
Production
company
Marvin Schwartz Productions
Distributed by20th 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.

Plot

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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.

Cast

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See also

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References

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  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
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