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Steelyard Blues (1973)

Directed by Alan Myerson (Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach)

Late Shift at the Grindhouse joins The Bijou Film Board in celebrating their 50th anniversary with a series of favorites from the year 1973. 

Free admission for University of Iowa students.

A nimble, nose-thumbing comedy from the writer and producers of The Sting.  

Presented on 16mm film!

"Perhaps the best American comedy since The President's Analyst, mainly because its humour is never imposed, but allowed to develop from the situations in which the characters find themselves." - Time Out

"Steelyard Blues isn't for everybody - those wanting the same old things done in the same old ways won't find it endearing. But for those wanting something different than the same old thing will find it extremely appealing." - Keith Bailey, The Unknown Movies

"Donald Sutherland is more charming here than I’ve seen him since MASH." - Steve Vineberg, The Boston Phoenix

Klute collaborators Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland reunite in a more lighthearted vein for this funny, freewheeling fable from writer David S. Ward and producers Tony Bill and Michael & Julia Phillips, the team behind the same year's Academy Award-winning Best Picture The Sting.  

Fonda plays Iris, a good-natured hooker whose pay-and-play clientele includes a Who's Who of City Hall.  But she's faithful to free-spirited parolee Jesse Veldini (Sutherland), who's itching to resume his career as a demolition derby driver.  Veldini's return could ruin the reelection campaign of his ambitious DA brother (Howard Hesseman) - so steps are taken to make the ex-jailbird toe the line.  Peter Boyle, John Savage and Garry Goodrow co-star in this nutball charmer.