Blaze (film)
- Paul Newman: Governor Earl K. Long
- Lolita Davidovich Blaze Starr
- Jerry Hardin: Thibodeaux
- Gailard Sartain: LaGrange
- Jeffrey DeMunn: Eldon Tuck
- Garland Bunting: Doc Ferriday
- Richard Jenkins: Picayune
- Brandon Smith: Arvin Deeter
- Jay Chevalier: Wiley Braden
- Robert Wuhl: Red Snyder
- Michael Brockman: Bobby
- Eloy Casados : Antoine
- James Harper: Willie Rainach
- Teresa Gilmore: Tamara Knight
- Dianne Brill: Delilah Dough
Blaze - A dangerous love. ( Original title: Blaze ) is an American film drama from 1989, directed by Ron Shelton, who also wrote the screenplay based on the book Blaze Starr: wrote My Life as Told to Huey Perry by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry.
Action
The action takes place in the 1950s in the United States. The Governor of the U.S. state of Louisiana, Earl K. Long, fighting for an extension of the rights of African Americans. He learns the stripper Blaze Starr, with whom he enters into a relationship that he does not try to hide. This relationship hurts his political reputation.
Reviews
The lexicon of the International film wrote that the film was a " photographed maintained, politically -themed tasteful melodrama with nostalgic attitude ". Only Paul Newman rage out "from the superficial drawing of time and milieu ."
The magazine wrote Cinema, the film offers a " mix of humor and hard facts ." The two main characters were " sent all shoals" dub " ".
Awards
Haskell Wexler was nominated in 1990 for Best Cinematography for an Oscar and won the American Society of Cinematographers Award. The film was nominated for the 1990 Political Film Society Award for Exposé.
Background
The film was shot in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and in several other locations in Louisiana. He played in the cinemas of the United States an approximately 19.1 million U.S. dollars.