Steelyard Blues **** (1973, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage) – Classic Movie Review 7561

After their 1971 big hit Klute, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were right to team up again for director Alan Myerson’s 1973 Steelyard Blues. It is a much less compelling but still quite endearing oddity about a motley crew stealing an old war plane to fly to a shangri-la where there are no rules.

There can be no complaints about the impressively showy acting from the stars or form Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman and John Savage, which keeps the film motoring along. The uneven, though ambitious film suffers from a lackadaisical and scattergun screenplay by David S Ward and from Myerson’s slack and unfocused direction. However, the results are pretty amusing anyhow, and the film is now an appealing time-capsule.

The writer David S Ward and producers Tony Bill, Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips went straight on to the 1973 mainstream mega-hit, The Sting.

Also in the cast are Gary Goodrow, Richard Schaal, Melvin Stewart, Morgan Upton, Roger Bowen and Jessica Myerson.

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