Kid Blue

1973 film by James Frawley

May 1973 (1973-05)

Running time

100 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$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

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

Dennis Hopper as Bickford Waner
Warren Oates as Reese Ford
Peter Boyle as Preacher Bob
Ben Johnson as Sheriff "Mean John" Simpson
Lee Purcell as Molly Ford
Janice Rule as Janet Conforto
Ralph Waite as Drummer
Clifton James as Mr. Hendricks
Jose Torvay as Old Coyote
Mary Jackson as Mrs. Evans
Jay Varela as Mendoza
Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. as Tough Guy
Warren Finnerty as Wills
Owen Orr as Train Robber #1
Richard Rust as Train Robber #2
Howard Hessman as Confectionary Man
M. Emmet Walsh as The Barber
Bobby Hall as The Bartender
Melvin Stewart as Blackman
Eddy Donno as Huey

References

^ 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