Blaze (film)

Infobox Film
name = Blaze


image_size =175px
imdb_id = 0096943
writer= Ron Shelton
starring = Paul Newman
Lolita Davidovich
director = Ron Shelton
producer = Gil Friesen
Dale Pollock
cinematography= Haskell Wexler
distributor = Touchstone Pictures
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
released = December 13, 1989
runtime = 120 min.
language = English
music = Bennie Wallace
awards =
budget =

"Blaze" is a 1989 film written and directed by Ron Shelton. Based on the 1974 memoir "Blaze Starr: My Life as Told to Huey Perry" by Blaze Starr and Huey Perry, the film stars Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita Davidovich as Starr, with Blaze Starr herself appearing in a cameo.

Plot

The movie tells the highly-fictionalized story of the latter years of Earl Long, a flamboyant governor of Louisiana, brother of assassinated governor & U.S. Senator Huey P. Long & uncle of longtime U.S. Senator Russell Long. According to the novel and film, Earl Long allegedly fell in love with a young stripper named Blaze Starr.