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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Motorcycle Cops and Murder - A Great 1970s Film Mar 11, 2010
Electra Glide in Blue is my favorite of the early-1970s, existential "highway movies." It has a plot, so it's better than Two-Lane Blacktop. Also, it seems less dated than Easy Rider. Electra Glide is a look into America's dark heart that is wrapped inside a murder mystery.
Robert Blake plays an Arizona motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen. People mock Wintergreen as "Big John" and "Little Chief" due to his small size. Wintergreen desperately wants to prove himself worthy of moving out of writing traffic tickets and into investigating homicides.
Wintergreen's "big chance" comes when he finds a "bum" dead inside a desert shack Everyone else is convinced that the death is a suicide, but Wintergreen knows better. Investigating the murder provides Wintergreen with the chance he craves. The murder mystery, however, is just a subplot. The film's true purpose is examining American culture and values. If Electra Glide sounds like a strange film, it should.
The cast is excellent. Before Blake became notorious in the Bonnie Bakley case, he was a first-rate actor. Billy "Green" Bush (as Blake's dumb partner, Zipper) and Mitch Ryan (as the tough homicide cop, Harve) are also excellent. I particularly liked Jeannine Riley (of "Harper Valley PTA"-fame) as Jolene, an angst-filled honky-tonk waitress.
There are some "added rewards" for watching Electra Glide. The cinematography is gorgeous; the blue skies and washed-out colors of the American desert make a great backdrop. The 1970s cars, hair, and clothes also catch the viewer's eyes.
Viewers who like daring cinema with a hard edge will enjoy Electra Glide in Blue.
 Everything I hoped it would be Sep 12, 2009
The definition of a cult film must be that it is hard to find. And that many of your friends don't know it. Both of those are true here. In fact, there is no current Region 1 release, so I had to purchase it from amazon UK. It was worth the extra work and cost.
While the moral ambiguity in this film is timeless, it is in other ways a time capsule piece. A Neo Western that is essentially an anti-Easy Rider. Some of the acting (by the supporting cast) is, how should I say, heavy-handed, but it never approaches camp.
For serious fans of the movie, there are still a few frames missing from the end. These were reportedly cut from the U.S. theatrical release in order to get the rating down to a PG. Supposedly the original UK version was more graphic (I'm trying not to spoil anything). But this new release by Optimum, while R2, still does not include the 17 frames either. Presumably they used the US master?
In any case it's a great DVD: Beautiful transfer, great soundtrack, and a career performance by Robert Blake.
The biggest question of course is why Jim Guercio never directed another film. Unfortunately he doesn't really address this on either the Introduction or in the Director's commentary. The former is very good and full of insight, the latter is more sparse; invariably Mr. Guercio seems uncomfortable talking over the film and down to the viewer, preferring to let his work speak for itself.
0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A weird slice of 1970s zeitgeist Aug 09, 2009
Here's an odd little movie with a languid pace and a very short officer who dreams of becoming a detective until he sees just how corrupt one can become when one has such power. You get a glimpse into the 1970s system vs. the common man theme here, with a detective and even regular motorcycle cops being unfair to the hippies who are just zipping along the Arizona highways, for the most part.
Tragedies ensue as Robert Blake and his hair-trigger partner try to chase down a criminal. Slo-mo crashes happen. The film ends on the same lonely stretch of highway we see at the start.
Interesting look into the recent past.
0 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Unheard Of For A Good Reason Jul 25, 2009
The reason? IT STINKS!
It's not a crisp thriller; not an action movie; and not very interesting at all. My girlfriend happened to catch the ending on TV and told me about it. Now, if you see a dramatic ending like that it makes you wonder what events could have led up to such a turn of events. We both were very curious and I almost bought this movie. I AM REALLY GLAD I DIDN'T after I caught it on TV.
It has one heck of a beginning that really sparks your imagination as you wonder if what you just saw was a suicide? A murder? Who was there? Why? And as mentioned, a quick and shocking ending that brings things to a screeching halt. The problem is that everything in between is pure garbage that just bores the life out of you.
So this guy wants to be a detective: why should I care? So he stumbles across the dead body and turns out to be too much of a sissy by-the-book dork to be a real case cracking detective: so he's a looser too! Why should I care about a looser? I just want to know how the dead guy was killed and why. I never got the answer, really.
Oh, and as far as the tittle: "Electra Glide in Blue"? Why the emphasis on a motorcycle? Motorcycles have no significance in this movie. You could have named it "Corolla in Blue" or "BMW in Pink" and it would have made no difference. What a looser movie!!!
 Bad movie, great cinematography! Apr 04, 2008
I had seen parts of this before, but watched the whole thing through today. I must say, as great as parts of this film are, it nevertheless disappoints on many crucial levels. The acting, (while largely cheesy) is enjoyable in a pic like this. I do enjoy Robert Blake's performance though, even though Detective Harvey is WAAAY over the top!! (the coroner guy was very good also). I definitely see a link to "Easy Rider", and indeed, both films represent a (then) new wave of modern western, even maybe similar in some ways to Peckinpah's "Wild Bunch" and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia". Actually, as powerful a film as Easy Rider is, I don't think it's a very good film either. But like Elecra Glide, it does invoke that new "take to the highway" consciousness of the counterculture of the early 70's. And as in Easy Rider, the cinematography in Electra Glide is fantastic! The amazing Conrad Hall (the original Outer Limits, and tons of other shows and movies), shows Arizona in all its beautiful glory, this film really looks great!! And it is such fun to see late guitar great Terry Kath and former bassist Peter Cetera from the group Chicago, after all, this was a James William Guercio film). But the pacing, acting, story, and editing are, umm...flawed IMO. Mild recommendation. Great soundtrack, including guitar great Larry Carlton!
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