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Released
1978 · FILM

Blue Collar

“"Blue Collar" is the American Dream. If you're rich, you can buy it. If you're anything else, you gotta fight for it.”

Directed by
Paul Schrader
Written by
Paul Schrader, Leonard Schrader
Runtime
114 min
CrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Three auto assembly line workers, frustrated by mistreatment from both management and union officials, and facing financial difficulties, devise a plan to rob a safe located at the union headquarters.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tom RolfShot by Bobby ByrneScored by Jack NitzscheDesigned by Lawrence G Paull

Box Office

1978 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$6.5M

Budget$1.7M
Worldwide gross$6.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Blue Collar - Kampf am Fließbandde
  • Tuta bluit

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