Word: steelyard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WITH HIS wiry build and unfashionably short hair, Donald Perdue looks more like an ironworker than a political radical. In fact, he worked in a South Florida steelyard until July when he traveled 250 miles north to Gainesville to stand trial on charges that he conspired to violently disrupt the 1972 Republican Convention...
...STEELYARD BLUES...
...Robert Aldrich's excellent The Flight of the Phoenix (1966), an ill-assorted group of renegades, soldiers, businessmen and misfits were marooned in the middle of a desert, their sole hope of survival being to somehow piece together their crashed plane. Steelyard Blues more or less rips off the same plot, but dispenses with suspense in favor of fey comedy and ragtag radicalism...
Director Myerson, who has worked with the San Francisco improvisational cabaret group, The Committee, has not made a movie before, a fact that becomes obvious in the first few minutes of Steelyard Blues. Technically the film is a shambles. The narrative only occasionally lapses into coherence. That may, in fact, be a blessing. The fairytale atmosphere that decorates the film like an icing makes the political palaver seem all the more frivolous...
...pretty tough," an old con tells Sutherland at the beginning of the film, "but you ain't dangerous." Steelyard Blues tries to be a little tough, but isn't; it never even tries to be dangerous. Myerson has all he can do to be funny once in a while, what with jokes like "We could go to Rome, Paris, Pittsburgh, all those places," and sight gags like Peter Boyle's not being able to boost himself up on a windowsill...