Main Cast: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert, Brian Dennehy
Release Year: 1983
Country: US
Run Time: 200 minutes
Plot
Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and later attorney general) Robert F. Kennedy. Cotter Smith makes his TV debut as Kennedy, a role he'd repeat on future occasions. Thoroughly compelling when sticking to the facts, the drama falls apart whenever indulging in flight of fanciful speculation (Sample: two of Hoffa's lieutenants watch the live telecast of Lee Harvey Oswald's murder, then celebrate the fact that Oswald will never be able to reveal their complicity in the JFK assassination!) Blood Feud was syndicated to local TV stations beginning April 24, 1983. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Douglas Dirkson - Clark Mollenhoff; Sam Groom - John F. Kennedy; Lance Henriksen - Mel Pierce (check sp); Michael Lerner - Eddie Cheyfitz; Sandy McPeak - Capt. Hamilton; Forrest Tucker - Lyndon B. Johnson; Ernest Borgnine - J. Edgar Hoover; José Ferrer - Edward Bennett Williams; Jim Antonio - James Neal; Seymour Cassel - Kierdorff; Jordan Charney - TV Commentator; James V. Gazzo - Johnny Masseta; Michael Gwynne - Hoffa's Attorney; Jim Haynie - Ned Tuckmill; Ron Karabatsos - Tony Buono; George Morfogen - George Di Santis; Nicholas Pryor - John Cye Chesty; Duncan Ross - Joseph P. Kennedy; Timothy Scott - Dan Ohlmeyer; Vito Scotti - Vince Bocca; Peter van Norden - Pierre Salinger; James Widdoes - Dave Thatcher; McKee Anderson - Ethel Kennedy; Guy Boyd - Pete the Trucker; Philip Bruns - Sen. McClellan; David Carlyle - Sheriff; Jacqueline Cassell - Hoffa's Secretary; T.J. Castronovo - Al Perelli; Michael Cavanaugh - US Marshal; Carolyn Coates - Kennedy's Secretary; Robert Costanzo - Rocky; Frank Dent - Michigan DA; Nate Esformes - Capo di Capi; Robert Fields - Gene Sears; John Francis - Restaurant Captain; Beatrice Manley - Judge Matthews; Frank McCarthy - Ewing King; Terrence E. McNally - Justice Dept. Attorney; Owen Orr - Washington Reporter; Charles Parks - 2nd Reporter; Jason Ronard - Soldato; Phil Roth - Electronics Expert; Kevin Scannell - Arresting FBI Agent; Frank Silvera - Anthony Rossi; Leonard Termo - LA Teamster; Jack Thibeau - Stanton; Dean Wein - 2nd Teamster; Red West - Violent Teamster; Biff Yeager - 1st Teamster; Eleanor Zee - Dry Cleaning Officer; Clete Roberts - Narrator; Michael Vincente Gazzo
Credit
Sydney Z. Litwack - Art Director, Robert Turturice - Costume Designer, Mike Newell - Director, John Farrell - Editor, Fred Steiner - Composer (Music Score), Lionel Newman - Musical Direction/Supervision, Sydney Z. Litwack - Production Designer, Joel Glickman - Producer, Daniel Mayer Selznick - Producer, Robert Boris - Screenwriter
