Outlaw Blues (1977)

Susan St. James helps Peter Fonda, an ex-convict who goes after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit.

Director:

Richard T. Heffron

Writer:

Bill Norton (as B.W.L. Norton)

Stars:

Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Peter Fonda	...	Bobby Ogden
Susan Saint James	...	Tina Waters
John Crawford	...	Buzz Cavenaugh
James T. Callahan	...	Garland Dupree
Michael Lerner	...	Hatch
Steven Fromholz	...	Elroy (as Steve Fromholz)
Richard Lockmiller	...	Associate Warden
Matt Clark	...	Billy Bob
Jan Rita Cobler	...	Cathy Moss
Gene Rader	...	Leon Warback
Curtis Harris	...	Big Guy
Jerry Greene	...	Disc Jockey
Dave Helfert	...	Anchorman
Jeffrey Friedman	...	Newsman
James N. Harrell	...	Cop Chauffeur

Storyline

Susan St. James helps Peter Fonda, an ex-convict who goes after the country music star who stole his song and made it a hit.

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Plot Keywords:

music industry | musician | boat | prison | outlaw | 

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Taglines:

On the make, on the run, getting famous and having fun.

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Genres:

Drama

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Certificate:

PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

August 1977 (USA)

Also Known As:

All'ultimo secondo

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,900,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sequoia Productions (II)

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Outlaw Blues was released 1 day before the death of Elvis Presley, 15 August 1977.

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Goofs

When they are at the football game, close up shots of the band were done earlier during the week and the field was dry. Long shots were done on an actual game on a rainy Saturday, so there are two colors of Astroturf being shown back and forth.

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Connections

Referenced in Angel (1982)

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Soundtracks

Water for My Horses
Written by Hoyt Axton
Sung by Peter Fonda

User Reviews

Down-home country music movie

This is a little-seen movie, which is too bad. It may not be great, but it's worth showing now and then. CMT should show it. Maybe they do. Outlaw Blues is a good title for this movie. Austin, Texas, is the Texas Nashville, and was a stomping grounds of Waylon and Willie, who were on the 1976 album Wanted!: The Outlaws. I never saw the beginning of the movie, but it seems that Bobby Ogden is released from prison, a country music star (Garland Dupree, I guess) steals a song that Bobby wrote and makes it a hit without compensation, and Tina Waters becomes Bobby's manager. Ogden and Waters seek vengeance. It seems they were being chased, and they rode a motorcycle through a wedding reception. And a truck carrying watermelons swerves and dumps watermelons on the street. Bobby is a wanted man. He is to record an album, so he and Waters record it in a Purina Feeds store. But someone tells the cops, and they have to break away in a feed truck. Then they're in a Glastron boat (Glastron boats were made in Austin, Texas) on a lake heading for a dam. Will Bobby get killed here? Will he and Waters sneak off to Mexico? Will Bobby go back to prison? Will his album be a success?