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	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

Before I get down to details, a complaint. When is this movie going to be available on widescreen DVD format? I bought the video and anxiously await the DVD release.

In 1973 Electra Glide In Blue was released to a big yawn. It has since become an American cult classic. If I told you where the interesting title comes from, I'd be giving away a major plot point.

Robert Blake plays a small-town desert motorcycle cop with dreams of grandeur. He seemingly gets his wish when he's promoted to detective and becomes involved in a homicide investigation. The investigation centers around a hippie commune where Blake identifies more with the hippies than with his fellow officers.

There are three truly great American actors: Marlon Brando, James Dean and Robert Blake. Electra Glide In Blue shows Robert Blake at his very best. And that's the name of that tune.

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Best from Robert Blake!

I haven't see this DVD release yet, but with MGM releasing this DVD it should be good. Don't expect much, if any, Specials though. I have seen this movie and I believe it is the best thing that Robert Blake ever did. Good preformances all around. Too Violent for small kids. Leonard Maltin gives it a 3 out of 4 Stars. Take a look!


GREAT FILM....GREAT SOUNDTRACK

This movie is very good...Yes there are members of the group CHICAGO in the film..Especially roles played by Peter Cetera and the late Terry Kath. I still have the LP Soundtrack which featured members of Chicago on it. When it first came out I would play the eight track in my car and people would say...Hey is that Chicagos new album? Its still a good movie

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"DID YOU KNOW ALAN LADD AND ME WERE THE SAME HEIGHT?"

is the film's best line, rattled off by Robert Blake with dead seriousness. But did Alan Ladd ever mount a Harley in the Arizona dessert? Blake does in what is undeniably a lost small classic. ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE was unique for it's time: it's a police story with a brain, foregoing the more popular chase and gunfight romps that filled the celluloid landscape in the early 1970's. It also takes place in the AZ dessert, so it's nice seeing some landscape not cluttered in concrete. Billy Green Bush and Mitchell Ryan give Blake the back-up he deserves and Jeannie Riley almost steals the film with her truth in booze revelation to Ryan (Blake getting dressed to The Marcels "Most Of All" is a close second). Another gem that needs to get to DVD.

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Concerning the DVD....

I have to agree with all the other reviews about this film. It was and remains to this day to be my favorite film of all time. I saw it the first time in 1973 during it's first run in the theater when I was 10 years old and now I'm happily employed in law enforcement because of it (kinda the way TOP GUN inspired many to join the military). I've been waiting since that time for a chalk full of commentary DVD to get released.

For some reason, they ignored this movie until Robert Blake (a damn good actor, I might add) got into all this stuff with B. Blakeley. When I finally heard it would be released on DVD, I wasn't surprised. Why wouldn't a distributor capitolize on the whole murder mess. What did I care? I was finally going to get my DVD. When I first saw the DVD cover on amazon, the blatant capitolization on the murder trial was hard to ignore. The tagline read "He's taking justice into his own hands". What the hell was this? As a fan of this film and all it's memorabilia, this tagline never existed. In fact, it had more to do with Roberts court dealings than with the movie. THAT WAS WRONG!! But...moving on.

I went out the day of it's release and purchased it. The first thing I viewed was one of it's original previews, part of the special features. That was cool. Another very cool item was the intro to the movie (option) by James Guercio, the director. That was also nice and set the precedent for what was coming. Or.....did it? James fell into the rut that most directors do when they record their commentary. He's gets lost watching his own film and either stays silent for long periods of time or, when he finally snaps to, he states the obvious, basically explaining the scene that you're viewing. What's the point? You're viewing the scene!! The scene shows a bar with pictures and posters all around of Jeannine Riley. You don't need the director saying "In this scene, there are posters all around of Jeannine Riley" 5 times.

I don't mean to be hard on Mr. Guercio. It's just that I've waited 32 years for certain shots and scenes to be elaborated on, but wasn't satisfied with his commentary. He did reveal some things, but fell way short of a commentary that stands up to, let's say Gary Marshall on the Pretty Woman DVD or Cameron Crowe. They should require directors to take DVD commentary 101 before allowing them to mess up the commentary track for all time. I mean, they're spending time doing it so why not try and do it right. We deserve that much. With that said, I'm still glad to have it and thankful for the insights he did bring to this classic film.

P.S. - He also never explained why the movie came back to the theater the following year under the title "Big John and Zipper". I would have loved to know the back story on that.

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