Electra Glide in Blue | Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush | One of the best cop films ever made bar...

Electra Glide in Blue | Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush | A Superb Character Study

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Electra Glide in Blue

	Electra Glide in Blue Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush MGM (Video & DVD), 2005 average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the best cop films ever made bar none!!!

Simply outstanding, shame this movie does not get mentioned
and is overshadowed by films like "Dirty Harry" or "Die Hard".

Robert Blake is simply outstanding as an eager young, moral
cop trying to clean up the streets and vermin in a corrupt
world. Everyone is corrupt, his partner is publicly
abused as is his boss Harvey.

Blake plays Weathergreen a young cop who stumbles onto
a crime scene. Weathergreen actually does his own detective
work and is able to deduct that this isn't your regular
crime scene. It looks like a suicide but Weathergreen
knows it's a murder. As Weathergreen carries his investigatinn,
he sees how his corrupt workers abuse the name of the law:
Intimidating witness, having sex with town sluts,
planting evidence, etc.

Weathergreen eventually solves the murder but a heavy
price. This is just a top notch cop movie. The acting
is superb on all levels.

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A Superb Character Study

I loved this film when I first saw it... and still find it marvelous. It is a character study of superb proportions. Each person being fully developed and fascinating. It is also one of the very few films that touch on the fetish of policemen and the uniform they wear, especially in the opening sequence when our short hero John Wintergreen dons his boots, badge and gleaming black and white helmet... and in the character of "Jolene" (played perfectly by Jeannine Riley), who says "John Wintergreen, you were not my first policeman... no way, no way."

Part of the reason this film did so poorly in 1973 was the advertising posters and soundtrack record cover, which showed Robert Blake in uniform next to other men clearly a foot taller and the movie quote "Did you know me and Alan Ladd are the same height?", which led many to think this was a comedy. It clearly is not. It is at once a fine murder mystery, action film and, perhaps most importantly, a character study.

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Electra-Glide in Blue

This is a beautifully photographed movie set in Arizona in 1973. The story has a few slow moments , but stay with it. There is an amazing pay-off at the end. The soundtrack features music from the members of Chicago ( who also appear as extras in several scenes). This is an anti-"Easy-Rider" film. Just watch and enjoy!

Goofy Seventies Cop Film

The freedom afforded young American directors in the seventies heralded some of the most adventurous and terrific films in the history of cinema. It also produced alot of self-indulgent claptrap. Unfortunately, "Electra Glide in Blue" falls more in the latter category than the former. Director James William Guercio would like to invoke comparisons to John Ford(hence, the Monument Valley locales) and "Easy Rider". Instead his film seems like a wacky episode of "CHiPs". I have nothing against a filmmaker who tries to pace his film deliberately. Guercio's direction, however, feels hamhanded and labored. Not that he's helped by a script that contains any number of preposterous scenes. One that comes to my mind is the long one involving a barmaid (Jeannine Riley) who dresses down a detective(Mitchell Ryan) for his inadequacies. The film is redeemed by some terrific acting by Robert Blake as the highway patrolman who has big dreams that are undermined by his integrity, Billy "Green" Bush as a fellow patrolman who isn't working with a full deck, Elisha Cook as a mentally challenged man, and Royal Dano as the Coroner. It goes without saying that Conrad Hall offers up terrific camerawork. Look close for a young Nick Nolte as an extra in the commune scene.

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