[Valkman]

What the heck was that revolver that Tony Blake carried in that movie? In a great bit of gun safety he sneaks up on another officer and cocks the gun, and it kinda looks like a blue-frame Python that someone put a nickel barrel and cylinder on. Ugh. Was that a Python?

[WT]

One of my favorite movies. Been on some of those roads.

Anyway, I can't say for sure but it could have been a 'Smython'. Back when the movie was made it was popular to put a Colt Python barrel on a Smith and Wesson.

[P95Carry]

Long - long time Don since I watched that - sure you are old enough to have seen it?? :p LOL.

I have Python in mind but - heck .. this ol' brain ain't that reliable!. Time I watched it again, along with Easy Rider. Wish I had copies.

[autoload]

I have been trying to find Electra Glide at the rental places for years with no luck. :banghead:

[Checkman]

Maybe it was a Dan Smith. I know that it was also popular to put Dan Wesson barrels on Smith frames during the seventies as well. What a weird decade.

[Valkman]

It was on some movie channel the other night, and Easy Rider was on AMC several times the past week. :) Every time I see a new crappy movie I go back to watching the classics for a while! I have Easy Rider on DVD though - every biker should own that one. :D

[Checkman]

Electra Glide is available on both VHS and DVD widescreen.

[P95Carry]

Electra Glide is available on both VHS and DVD widescreen. I must get lookin .. that's for sure.



(Thx for PM Don. :) )

[dfariswheel]

The gun is a Hollywood "pinto".
A Colt Python 4" blue, with a nickel plated barrel and cylinder.

Like most Hollywood guns, it was made up special for the movie.

[Preacherman]

According to Amazon, the DVD of EGIB is due for release in March 2005 - see here (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006TPDQQ/qid%3D1106354709/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-1275841-5986466) for details.

[MarineTech]

A real classic movie, my father still has the 33 record of the soundtrack.

I love the line:

"C'mon Zipper. There's got to be somebody doing something bad out there somewhere."

[pogo2]

Robert Blake plays John Wintergreen, a motorcycle patrolman on the highways of the northern Arizona desert in this 1973 film that sometimes defies description. It could be called a crime film because a crime does take place and is a central part of the story. It could also be called the study of a culture and the conflicts between the opposing forces in that culture because the movie begins and ends with Wintergreen stopping a hippie for a minor traffic violation on a deserted Arizona highway. There is much of the drug culture of the sixties and early seventies intertwined in this story along with the reactions of the police to that culture.

I suppose you can decide for yourself what you think the movie is depicting, even though I think that maybe we try to read too much into the movies of today that sometimes were just meant to be entertaining.

In most movie guides, Electra Glide In Blue is listed as and action/adventure film but that category is way too broad. I looked at the film as a character study of a lonely Viet Nam War veteran who's caught between the hippie culture he identifies with and the police culture he's trying to be a part of. He's in a part of police work he despises and his main ambition in life is to get off his Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle and into a more respectable line of police work. "I hate that motorcycle they make me ride," he says at one point in the film.

He eventually gets his wish and is assigned to the homicide unit as a detective, which is an assignment that turns out to be not much more than a driver and an errand boy for the chief detective, Harve Poole who is played by Mitchell Ryan. When Wintergreen embarrasses Poole, he's demoted back down to his motorcycle and patrolling the roads with his friend Zipper Davis (played by Billy Green Bush).

Zipper, in contrast to John Wintergreen, loves the job of motorcycle patrolman. John can usually find him somewhere along the highway, sitting in the shade, munching on snacks and reading comic books.

The ending of this movie is unpredictable and is one of the more memorable endings I've ever seen.

Robert Blake puts in a compelling performance in this movie. It's difficult for me to say whether I liked his acting better in this movie or in In Cold Blood because his performances were excellent in both films. Other actors to look for in this film are Elisha Cook as the hermit, Willie, and Royal Dano as the coroner. The movie is rated PG because of its violent content but it's one I'd highly recommend.

[FPrice]

The ending of this movie is unpredictable and is one of the more memorable endings I've ever seen.

About the only two things I remember about the movie are the beginning and the ending. You are correct about the latter.

[BusMaster007]

So, what's the gun and how does the movie end?!
Geez, you guys are drivin' me NUTS. :D

[BluesBear]

You cannot discuss the ending of "Electra Glide In Blue" without spoiling the movie.