NFB Collection
Back Alley Blue
197725 min 5 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Bill Reid
Production: Vladimir ValentaRoman Kroitor
Script: Peter MaddenBill Reid
Stolen money, a love intrigue and a police chase unite with the main theme, which is a day in the life of an old woman who scratches out a living collecting used pop bottles and picking through back alleys. She is not too poor, however, to return a kindness. The film ends on an unexpected note of humour.
Subject categories
- Social Issues > Crime and DelinquencyElderly PeoplePoverty
- Seniors > Social ProblemsWomen
Credits
- director
- Bill Reid
- producer
- Vladimir Valenta
- executive producer
- Roman Kroitor
- cinematography
- Savas Kalogeras
- Julian White
- script
- Peter Madden
- Bill Reid
- photography
- Lois Siegel
- sound
- Raymond Marcoux
- Joseph Champagne
- editing
- Tom Daly
- David Wilson
- sound editing
- John Knight
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- music
- Bruce Mackay
- cast
- John Evans
- Nan Stewart
- Judith Gault
- Cheryl Kemeny
- Vlasta Vrana
- Christopher Lumière