pryor, keitel...from 1978
i'm posting this bcz of aaron's comment about keitel earlier today and it's on now


summary:
Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and drinking their beers together. One night when they steal away from their wives to have some fun they get the idea to rob the local union's bureau safe. First they think it is a flop, because they get only 600 dollars out of it, but then Zeke realizes that they also have gotten some 'hot' material. They decide to blackmail their union. The best reason for that is the union itself. All three are provoked by the fact that the union claims to have lost 10,000 dollars by their robbery.

trivia from the movie:
The word "fuck" and all various permutations of it are said 173 times.

It was a very tense shoot because the three lead actors, Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel argued constantly. According to Paul Schrader, Pryor punched Keitel and hit Kotto with a chair during filming.


No major auto company would allow this film to be shot at their factory, so the Checker Cab Co. plant was used as the primary location.


"Good Times" (1974) can be seen on the TV. Chip Fields, who appears here as Zeke's wife Caroline, had a memorable set of guest appearances on that series as the mother of Penny (Janet Jackson.)

funny... keitel was born in 1939..he looks late 20's early 30's in this movie

"can you describe the robbers?"
"2 black guys and a white one...like an oreo cookie"

wow..no one else watching this?

what an ending

no one else watching anything?

i just watched Downfall and now I'm doing the first episode of Rome.

sctv now for me