Billy Green Bush, Elisha Cook Jr., Hawk Wolinski

An Arizona motorcycle cop yearns for that detective badge...

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PG, 1 hr. 53 min.

Directed by: James William Guercio

Release Date: June 1, 1973

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DVD Release Date: March 22, 2005

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  • December 17, 2008
    70's character driven cop drama. Jumps the tracks a couple of times due to time period, but still effective.
  • December 27, 2006
    Probably the most underrated movie of the 70s. Picture a right wing Easy Rider told from a pious cop's point of view and you're getting warm. Incredible cinematography by Conrad Hall.
  • May 20, 2008
    A truly great 70's cult classic finally on Dvd. Long before Robert Blake was getting in trouble with the law, he was the law in this beautifully filmed crime drama. Blake plays John Wintergreen, an undersized straight shooting Arizona motorcycle cop trying desperately to become a...( read more) detective. He gets his chance when he stumbles upon a murder made to look like a suicide. Mitch Ryan is the grizzled hippy hating detective who takes Blake under his wing and Billy Green Bush plays his bike riding partner. Look for cameos by Peter Cetera and other members of the band Chicago and a very young Nick Nolte as one of the non-speaking gape mouthed hippies that Blake and Ryan shakedown.
  • May 19, 2007
    I'm kind of at a loss here giving this one a star rating. This film is the strangest, most offbeat thing I've seen in some time. Not strange in an abstract or outwardly surreal sense (of which in some instances I'm beginning to lose patience with anyway), but different in how i...( read more)t presents it's take on the conventions of the way motion pictures are made. You've never seen anything like Electra Glide in Blue. Sure, there are scenes and segments which will be very familar to any casual film-goer. It's the way this film uses these drastically different conventions and the rhythm in which they are used that make it so unique. After just one viewing, I'm not sure I can give this the proper review. What an experience. All I can do now is reccomend it to lovers of 70's cinema and those with peculiar tastes. Oh, and the ending, taken in context, may be one of the best I've ever seen. Almost a reverse Easy Rider finale, if you will. Wow.
  • March 3, 2007
    This is the type of character profile that Hollywood doesn't do anymore. Dysfunction on the edge - and what a great shocking ending!
  • February 14, 2007
    A truly underrated movie
  • January 15, 2007
    This is a 70's "cult classic" that probably very few people have heard of. The acting is kind of bad, but Robert Blake is pretty good in this movie.
  • December 3, 2006
    I would like to see this, i think...

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