Blood Feud | |
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Screenplay by | Robert Boris |
Directed by | Mike Newell |
Starring | Robert Blake Cotter Smith |
Theme music composer | Fred Steiner |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producers | Joel Glickman Daniel Selznick |
Production locations | 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California |
Editor | John Farrell |
Running time | 210 minutes |
Production company | 20th Century Fox Television |
Original release | |
Network | Syndication |
Release | April 25 May 2, 1983 | –
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Blood Feud is a 1983 American two-part, four-hour made-for-television crime drama film centering on the conflict between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy in an 11-year span from 1957 until Kennedy's assassination in 1968. The 210-minute film was directed by Mike Newell and written by Robert Boris. It stars Robert Blake as Hoffa and Cotter Smith as Kennedy with Danny Aiello and Brian Dennehy in supporting roles as union associates of Hoffa's.[1]
The television film was distributed by Operation Prime Time, a syndicated block of television programming offered to mostly American independent stations.[2]
Blake was nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for Best Actor for his performance as Hoffa.