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Blood Feud is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mike Newell released in USA on 25 april 1983 with Robert Blake
Blood Feud (1983)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 25 april 1983
Length 3h30
Directed by Mike Newell
OriginUSA
Themes Films about families
Rating67%
Blood Feud is a 1983 television miniseries surrounding around the conflict between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy in an 11-year span from 1957 until Kennedy's assassination in 1968. The 210-minute film was directed by Mike Newell and written by Robert Boris. It stars Robert Blake as Hoffa and Cotter Smith as Kennedy with Danny Aiello and Brian Dennehy in supporting roles as union associates of Hoffa's.
The television film was distributed by Operation Prime Time, a syndicated block of television programming offered to mostly American independent stations.
Blake was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as Hoffa.
^ Blood Feud at the Internet Movie Database
^ Variety. December 2, 2010. Last accessed: February 22, 2011.
Synopsis
It is the mid-1950s. Wealthy young Robert F. Kennedy is beginning to make a name for himself in Washington, D.C., as is older brother John F. Kennedy, a United States senator from Massachusetts.Actors
Robert Blake
(James Riddle 'Jimmy' Hoffa)
Cotter Smith
(Robert F. Kennedy)
Forrest Tucker
(Lyndon B. Johnson)
Ernest Borgnine
(J. Edgar Hoover)
Danny Aiello
(Randy Powers)
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