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The Last Pullman Car  /  Taylor Chain I & II

The Last Pullman Car
September 23, 2016 - 7:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: 
Gordon Quinn.

The Last Pullman Car  (1983)


A century of industrial expansion and contraction, bad transportation policy, union building and busting, and racial politics comes to bear when Steelworkers Local 1834 starts a fight to keep the Pullman Standard Chicago Car Works open in the face of global competition.  From factory floor to the state legislature, directors Gordon Quinn and Jerry Blumenthal trace the workers’ struggle against the odds to “keep mass transit rolling.”

Digital Video, color, 57 min.  DIR: Gordon Quinn, Jerry Blumenthal.

Preceded by

Taylor Chain I: A Story in a Union Local  (1980)


The down-and-dirty politics and persuasion of a labor dispute take center stage in this brutally honest document of a seven-week strike at a chain manufacturing plant in Indiana.

Digital Video, b/w, 34 min.  DIR: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn.

Taylor Chain II: A Story of Collective Bargaining  (1983)


Three years after they first visited the workers at Taylor Chain, Kartemquin filmmakers returned to find the factory’s future increasingly uncertain and tensions high as a radically reduced workforce begins talks with a new management team.

Digital Video, color, 31 min.  DIR: Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn.

Part of: 
Kartemquin Films at 50