Blaze (film)
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| Directed by | Ron Shelton |
| Produced by |
Gil Friesen Dale Pollock |
| Screenplay by | Ron Shelton |
| Based on |
Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry by Blaze Starr Huey Perry |
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| Music by | Bennie Wallace |
| Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
| Edited by |
Robert Leighton Michael King |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million |
| Box office | $19,131,246 |
Blaze is a 1989 film written and directed by Ron Shelton. Based on the 1974 memoir Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry, the film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Blaze Starr, with Starr herself in a cameo appearance.
The movie tells the highly fictionalized story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant Governor of Louisiana, brother of assassinated governor and U.S. Senator Huey P. Long and uncle of longtime U.S. Senator Russell Long. According to the novel and film, Earl Long allegedly fell in love with a young stripper named Blaze Starr.
The movie received mixed reviews from critics.
Blaze debuted at number 9 at the North American box office on its opening weekend.
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