An offbeat western comedy set at the turn of the century, Kid Blue finds its hapless namesake outlaw (Dennis Hopper) trying to go straight and get an honest job in a small Texas town of eccentrics (including Warren Oates, Peter Boyle, Ben Johnson and Lee Purcell). He was a good kid, but a rotten bandit, and he’ll soon find that old habits are hard to break.
“Kid Blue has a meandering jug band sensibility and a premise hilariously relevant to Hopper’s situation.” – J. Hoberman, The New York Times
“A gentle little fable about the mechanization of the west and its effects on a small-time outlaw.” – Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Ariel Schudson discusses Kid Blue on the New Beverly blog.
