I saw this movie when I was nine-years old. I remember buying the soundtrack which was mostly engine sounds and sound bites. But it came with a few posters which I hung in my room as a kid.
Subsequently I became a motorcop and was assigned a Road King. When I retired I bought an Electra-Glide (Ultra now).
Everytime I turned my "wheel" on I always smiled and thought about this movie.
When I was a kid, my first hero was a motorcycle cop who warned me about walking up the middle of the street I lived on. He gave me a ride on his motorcycle and growing up, I have always remembered that cop who I came to look up to. I have been a police patch and cop movie photo collector for many years and in 1973, a friend bought me the soundtrack to Electraglide in Blue as a gift. I treasured the album for several months and memorized the lines from the record before seeing the movie a year later. This film and the score is brilliant and to collectors of police memorabilia, it's one of the "great 3 motorcycle cop films"... the others being "THX-1138" and "Magnum Force". Of all the films, no other had the classic LAPD style uniform or the Harley Davidson motorcycle so accurately or shown to more advantage. The chase scene and the photography are first rate. It's great to see this film inspired a man to become one of those heroes. I figured it just had to.
shareHWY505 I envy you. When I was a kid I saw this movie and the Wintergreen's lifestyle as the Western Cowboy Hero brought into the modern world on an Electraglide made me want to be a motorcycle policeman. "The Exorcist" made me want to become a Catholic priest but we won't go there, okay?
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Hey btf4u, I know I'm 18 months late in replying, but Blake could've easily played Father Karrass in The Exorcist, if Jason Miller was unavailable.
True, CND. Don't worry about the lateness. I'd be interested in how Billy Green Bush would have played Father Merrin... :)
Regards, BTF.
The Exorcist made me want to be a possessed pre-teen girl. But I also became a police officer. I had the soundtrack album too and would point it out on Captain Furillo's wall every time HSB was on.
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.
I'm sure Wintergreen's beat would become a bore at times, but I thought the director did a brilliant job at linking Wintergreen's environment to the classic Western panoramas we see in John Ford (among other's) films. Despite the modern-day setting for the backdrop, I think Wintergreen doesn't look any more out of place on his Electraglide than John Wayne does on his horse.
And I don't know, BB... That scene with the bloody crucifix ("Leave the sow alone...she's mine!) looked pretty painful! ;)
Regards