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Blue Collar (1978) More at IMDbPro »

• 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.)
  
  
• The word "fuck" and all various permutations of it are said 173 times.
  
  

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