Steelyard Blues

A group of misfits who want to find a happier life somewhere out of society decide to leave town on a PBY flying boat. The problem is that their transport needs a lot of work before they can fly it.

Cast

Jane Fonda

as Iris Caine

Donald Sutherland

as Jesse Veldini

Peter Boyle

as Eagle Thornberry

Garry Goodrow

as Duval Jax

Howard Hesseman

as Frank Veldini

John Savage

as Kid

Richard Schaal

as Mel the Zoo Official

Mel Stewart

as Black Man in Jail

Morgan Upton

as Bill the Police Captain

Roger Bowen

as Fire Commissioner Francis

Reviews

Wuchak

_**Oddball drama about outcasts (Sutherland, Boyle and Fonda) starts shaky, but finds its footing**_ A group of misfits in the Oakland area hang out in a junkyard and an abandoned airstrip. They come up with the harebrained scheme of repairing a PBY Catalina flying boat and escaping their trouble...

CinemaSerf

I usually reckon that heist movies are always more interesting as the plotters get together and do their scheming, then they fall away a bit as very, very, rarely do they ever get away with their crime. Well this one has the scheming phase, ok, but it isn’t remotely interesting. Donald Sutherland he...

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