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STEELYARD BLUES

Directed by Alan Myerson

(Warner Brothers)

Biz-arre!

First off, it may be a good idea to explain what scatterbrained plot there is to Steelyard Blues. The title is what it implies — a worker’s wail. Here goes: there are five characters working together at pulling a delapidated plane into shape “to go where there are no jails.” The bird, “Old Toledo,” is the temporary home of one of them, a wiry, articulate tuba player; another is Iris, the police department’s favorite whore; the main man, Veldini, is a demolition derbyite turned zoo-shit cleaner thanks to his politician/brother who is also his parole officer; Eagle is Marlon Brando, an ambulance driver, hangman, pilot but mostly ex-institutionalized and lastly, a youthful, guitartwanging electrician turned artful dodging pickpocket, aptly named The Kid.