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Kid Blue (1973)
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Overview
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Writer:
Bud Shrake (written by)
Release Date:
2 May 1974 (Sweden)
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He was a good kid, but a rotten bandit. more
Plot:
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs...
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This movie made me smile
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Dennis Hopper | ... | Bickford Waner |
 | Warren Oates | ... | Reese Ford |
 | Peter Boyle | ... | Preacher Bob |
 | Ben Johnson | ... | Sheriff 'Mean John' Simpson |
 | Lee Purcell | ... | Molly Ford |
| Janice Rule | ... | Janet Conforto |
| Ralph Waite | ... | Drummer |
| Clifton James | ... | Mr. Hendricks |
| José Torvay | ... | Old Coyote (as Jose Torvay) |
| Mary Jackson | ... | Mrs. Evans |
| Jay Varela | ... | Mendoza |
| Jack Starrett | ... | Tough Guy (as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr.) |
| Warren Finnerty | ... | Wills |
| Owen Orr | ... | Train robber #1 |
| Richard Rust | ... | Train robber #2 |
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Also Known As:
Dime Box (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
100 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) |
Canada:R (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG
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Reese Ford:
Money don't make no difference. You can live a whole beautiful life inside your head. A lot of these folks, they can't do that.
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The first half of this seemed kind of slow to me and a couple of times I only watched about 10 minutes of it when it came on IFC, telling myself I'd rather watch it all the way through from the beginning.
I was glad I did. Bickner (Hopper) is a godless, but sincere former outlaw trying to live a straight life under tough conditions and a mean sheriff in a small town where the factory turned out to be his only hope for work.
Though I thought it a bit slow at first, about halfway through, I found I was into it and the ending actually made me smile.
My favorite line is easily Hopper's when he tells Warren Oates, "A man's gotta kill his own snakes.", which I found to have meaning on multiple levels.