Starring Robert (Baretta) Blake, was just on TCM. I forgot how much I enjoyed this old film - especially picking out the members of Chicago and Nick Nolte in the crowd scenes.


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Never saw the movie but the title inspired a song by Apollo 440:

https://youtu.be/QRI548QaGVc

Yeah, a great film, very underrated, and little known these days. I have great memories about this film.

I was in the little town of Many, Louisiana on grandpa's farm. One of the older guys there (all of 16 years old) loved the film so much, he had already seen it twice and was taking me to see it the next day at the only movie theater in town. He told me about the entire film- at least, his adolescent country boy interpretation of what is actually a film with much deeper meanings than what appears on the screen- so, before I saw the film, I knew quite a bit about it, including that memorable ending. I was 12, I think, and didn't know enough to object to the spoiler.

It's mind-blowing for me to realize this was almost 50 years ago.

Small towns back then, well, things were a bit less formal in certain ways. When this song played in the film, a man and woman got up from their seats and slow danced in front of the stage. When they sat back down, there was a smattering of applause. I haven't thought about any of this in a long time. The nostalgia is almost painful.

The Moonglows made this tune a hit, but the version in the film is The Marcels, which I prefer.




And then, there's Wintergreen's two-tone Colt Python.



Anyway, Electra Glide in Blue was made during that incredible period in American cinema, from about 1967 to 1974, a time in movie-making that will never come again.

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Anyway, Electra Glide in Blue was made during that incredible period in American cinema, from about 1967 to 1974, a time in movie-making that will never come again.

True words. This film, along with Easy Rider (1969) which shares a similar ending, were seminal films of the period, both displaying the counter-culture revolution that was taking place while other Americans were still dying in Vietnam. Both had their effect upon me, along with the nightly news bulletins from SE Asia. It's crazy to think how long ago this all was.