Three Reasons: Electra Glide in Blue

[@movieman1556]

Will NEVER understand why a cd was never released! Classic film and soundtrack!!

[@travisdarko]

This film is a stone cold classic. Blake's performance was award-worthy...

[@thomascarpenter7415]

I watched this as a kid in ‘74… in ‘98 I got my “Winged Motor Wheels “ as Motor Officer with Las Vegas Metro PD , KOM674. I rode one for 7 years , loved it !

[@私は一人で]

This film made me fall in love with Harley Davidson police bikes

[@telsutton]

The first movie my Film Studies tutor introduced us to. I fell in love with it immediately, and maintain that not only is it one of the finest pieces of Cinema of the 1970s, but of all-time. It's a rare a film sometimes equals a lot more than what the sum of its parts would seem on paper.... EGiB is the epitome of that imo.

[@carrolwaite5487]

A classic, cannot say how many times I've seen it since it originally came out.

[@kowens1956]

Anytime someone asked me what it was really like to be a cop, I always told em to watch this movie.

[@SandCrabNews]

I watched the film and bought the vinyl album. AWESOME!

[@LesterMoore]

I just purchased a vinyl. It will be fine to listen to.

[@jeffcaldwell2991]

Being a short cop myself (5'6") I love the shot of the officers in formation and the camera has to go back and pan down so that we can see his face. LOL.

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

One of my all-time favorite films. That Monument Valley scene (starting at 2:55) still gives me the chills when I see it. Great visuals, great soundtrack...and Blake is terrific.

[@robbyeinolf5417]

James William Guercio is an American music producer, musician, songwriter and director. He is well known for his work as the producer of Chicago's early albums as well as early recordings of The Buckinghams and Blood, Sweat & Tears. Four members of Chicago played the bad bikers, Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Lee Loughnane, and Walt Parazaider.

[@jimvinespresents...8463]

@@robbyeinolf5417 Yes, a talented musician and music producer, but -- according to many --he didn't really direct "Electra Glide in Blue." In fact, if you listen to the audio commentary for the movie, he has virtually nothing to say.

[@surfstrat59]

This was a Great Film which stood out in a period of Great Films. Like many of it's brilliant contemporaries, it appears on the surface to be a drive-in style exploitation film. Which it was. But like many of those movies, it is so much more than that.....

[@barneydtr]

I think the best art is not totally what it appears to be on the surface. It is only natural that these film should contain something of the attitude of those times.

[@bigwu100]

You might wanna catch "friends of Eddie coil."

[@markpav9906]

great movie Saw it when first first came out . have the dvd

[@samuelglassjr.5514]

Reason Number Four: an assembly of some of the great character actors still living at the time: Royal Dano, Mitchell Ryan, Elisha Cook, Jr., Blake's co-star, Billy Green Bush - J.W. Guercio wasn't stupid when it came to THAT casting.

[@clouddweller1195]

Correct !

[@mu950]

Samuel Glass Jr. reason 5 harley davidson Electra Glide ⭐️

[@dustylover100]

All of the Chicago guys other than Terry Kath are still living.

[@MegaThecolonel]

A seriously good film

[@bluenote824jones7]

a super great movie.i was confused with the credits .it said song by madura.and to this day I never heard of them.i was blown away with the ending.i just sat there for like 5 minutes thinking.since then I have seen it about 20 times.great !!!!!!!!!

[@sveltebarry]

I'd say you more than made a case for this one. Love this film.

[@dreamquesttv]

I'll add THREE more reasons: Conrad Hall Sr.'s incredible cinematography, some of the best EVER put on film, the great performance of the underrated Billy Green Bush (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore) and the only (as far as we know) existing concert footage of Madura (featuring Alan DeCarlo on guitar), a band that, like Chicago, was managed by J.W. Guercio.

[@samuelglassjr.5514]

+Frank Sadat THANK YOU. I was going to say - yeah, it was John Ford's Monument Valley, but the way it was shot by Conrad Hall, I had never seen it that way before, in all of its bleak, gorgeous majesty.

[@josebelindo1641]

Ill never go back to Georgia great albums with a poster

[@mutterschied]

Mr. Guercio MADE a gem of a film. A fucking gem, a definitiva gem. Contary to Hollywood's usual technology, this IS and WILL BE a connoiseur film. Mr. Guercio did go to make a movie'bout my loved Harleys, and finished making the fucking damnedest BEST filme ever made about policemen.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1973 {August 19th} the Robert Blake movie "Electra Glide in Blue" had its world premier in New York City... Robert Blake received a Golden Globe Award nomination for 'Best Actor in a Drama' {winner was Al Pacino for 'Serpico'}... The film was produced by James William Guercio, who was the manager of the group 'Chicago' {as a result band members Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider, and Lee Loughnane all had small rolls in the movie}...

[@wonkylommiter6364]

Well its Aug 19 2017, an this is one of my favourite films, since seeing it aged around 16 over 25 years ago!

[@RaySquirrel]

Having seen Easy Rider recently, I think I like Electric Glide more for it's more sympathetic protagonist.

[@TheBrad9338]

He hated the desert. I miss it so much, it haunts me.

[@LesterMoore]

Just something about the desert that continues to draw and intrigue me.

[@jasonpinson8755]

Good film.

[@austingone]

At the 2:32 mark, you can see an unknown extra, NICK NOLTE on the right side of he screen, wearing a blue shirt and longish blonde hair

[@jrpro5195]

This was such a 70s movie...

[@760jjsole8]

this was also filmed in Victorville

[@RaySquirrel]

I remember watching this film a few years back. It was on TCM presented in a block hosted by Rob Zombie. Having seen Easy Rider recent

[@surfstrat59]

I agree! It's a great film....totally underrated by film historians. It's a crime....;-D

[@Motorwinter]

A brilliant film I agree and very underrated, did anyone notice Nick Nolte in the Hippie Crowd Pig Farm scene and the fact that Peter Cetera from the group Chicago was the biker gang leader sent flying through the cafe window shows Guercios background in music management, he was Chicagos manager as well.

[@jhnstn1]

Also the Chicago horns and Terry Kath playing bass in much of the soundtrack.

[@ricklloyd2590]

Terry is who killed him at the end.

[@alfredomumiz9678]

Terry Kath was at the end of movie shot cop on motorcycle good movie

[@samuelglassjr.5514]

Good call, BTW, on the EASY RIDER juxtaposition.

[@MisterRiffley]

Wait. So they're ALL like Devil's Tower? WTF, Spielberg? I'd like to argue for putting this in the Criterion Collection and taking Close Encounters out.

[@josebelindo1641]

1:36

[@josebelindo1641]

1:35

[@josebelindo1641]

Vocal Indoctrination

[@bigwu100]

But their all road kings. No bat wing fairings.

[@russellbenford6611]

Roadkigs weren’t invented !!!😁

[@bigwu100]

Im glad to see someone inject something. Thank you for that. Learn something new every day.

[@ciaranmurphy9513]

Pure Tarantino