Kid Blue


Kid Blue is a 1973 Western film directed by James Frawley and starring Dennis Hopper, Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, and Ben Johnson.

Plot

Bickford Waner, who has failed as a train robber, decides to go straight and get an honest job. He arrives in Dime Box, Texas, to find work. He is befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly. Molly seduces Bickford into getting herself pregnant and making her husband miserable, feeling betrayed by his best friend. Mean John, the sheriff, is right on top of the whole plot, recognizing Kid Blue for what he really is, in spite of his trying to change his character. Another friend that Kid Blue has is the town's preacher Bob, who does an excellent acting job.
Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto tracks him down and reveals that Bickford is actually a train robber known as Kid Blue. Bickford returns to his old ways and plots a crime. At the end, Preacher Bob helps the kid escape Mean John in a surprising manner.

Cast