Blood Feud (1983 film)
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| Screenplay by | Robert Boris |
| Directed by | Mike Newell |
| Starring |
Robert Blake Cotter Smith |
| Theme music composer | Fred Steiner |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Joel Glickman Daniel Selznick |
| Editor(s) | John Farrell |
| Running time | 210 minutes |
| Production company(s) | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Distributor | Operation Prime Time |
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| Original network | Syndicated |
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Blood Feud is a 1983 American 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.
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.
Also on the rise is James R. Hoffa, an intensely dedicated member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union whose ambition is to become a force in the American labor movement. Jimmy Hoffa makes an attempt to ingratiate himself with Bobby Kennedy the first time they meet, but Kennedy is investigating corruption in labor and is already suspicious of Hoffa's possible ties to organized crime.
Kennedy exacts a promise from his brother to be part of a Senate committee investigating crime syndicates and their illegal ties to union executives and pension funds. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover is unwilling to focus on organized crime, or even acknowledge that such a thing exists.
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