Topic: 2 motorcycle movies last night and another interesting tidbit.

[seaweb11]

Last night I watched a couple of cool old bike films.......
Psychomania:
I saw this film as a kid and it scared the crap out of me. 1968?
Plot: London Biker Gang, One of them figures out if you kill yourself on purpose, with the belief that you won't actually die, you won't. Thus a biker gang of the Undead.
I enjoyed watching it again, I was amazed at how much of the the dialog I remembered.

Then right after that ......2:00am
Electra Glide in Blue with Robert Blake Started!!!!!!!!
This was the 1st film I went to myself and the 1st time downtown by myself, I would have been 13 years old.
Long 2 mile walk to bus stop in West Van, then a bus over to Vancouver to Granville St.
I missed a lot the 1st time, but again surprised at how much dialog I remembered
Unfortunately, at 2:30am I went to bed, and missed the ending. From what I remember, he gets the #$%* shot out of him while on his bike?


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Then this evening I stopped at a documentary on Harvey Milk. The 1st openly gay elected official in the USA? SanFrancisco.

They had a film clip and photos of him arriving at his "office" (camera store) to celebrate his election victory on a CB750!!!!!!!!!!!!!   It was a woman on his volunteer staff riding it, 

 

[754]

Dude, we are like still waiting for your thoughts on 'One Week"...

 I have not seen them  flicks, you speak of,

 But, when I was also about 13, I skup out (=past tense of skip out) of Army Cadets, and went to the first movie of my life..
 Ann Margeret.. grrrrroowww.. and Joe Nameth.... in
 CC rider.. or CC & Company..

 It was sofa king cool, life altering.. in fact..
 shortly after that, I decided that being in Army Cadets and getting ordered about was not the life for me..

 at 15 I ran away from home to get to California for the winter and try to get a bike, but I did not make it..

 Eventually I did, but it took a few years,   

 ... one never forgets their first biker flick....

[CycleRanger]

Last night I watched a couple of cool old bike films.......
Psychomania:

I DVR'd this and ran through it this morning.  It was like a really bad homage to the Roger Corman 60's biker movies and the Hammer gothic horror films of the same period.  Lots of old Trumpets though.

[750goes]

STONE

aussie flick - nice bikes

[Retro Rocket]

STONE

aussie flick - nice bikes

I still remember the first time i saw Stone, i had never seen so many Z900's in one place in my life. The old drive in is no longer there but i still think about it when i drive by....You had to love the 70's..

Mick

[CycleRanger]

Oh excellent!  I must find a copy of this Stone movie!

btw, speaking Aussie movies from the '70's, I recently watched this documentary,
Not Quite Hollywood.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996966/
It was very good.  I had no idea the Australian film industry was so prolific. 
In the US we didn't really see many Aussie films until Mad Max.
I miss drive in movies. 

[BobbyR]

STONE

aussie flick - nice bikes

I still remember the first time i saw Stone, i had never seen so many Z900's in one place in my life. The old drive in is no longer there but i still think about it when i drive by....You had to love the 70's..

Mick

Yes I miss the Drive In Movies. I took a girl named Valerie there to see Blazing Saddles. Some years later I actually saw the film. I do remember a great deal about Valerie.

[Ryan 550k]

I just youtubed Stone and Psychomania.  Absolutely awesome for all the right, and wrong reasons
Thanks for sharin guys.

[BobbyR]

Electra Glide in Blue was a very good film. Robert Blake did a real good job in that one.

[Retro Rocket]

STONE

aussie flick - nice bikes

I still remember the first time i saw Stone, i had never seen so many Z900's in one place in my life. The old drive in is no longer there but i still think about it when i drive by....You had to love the 70's..

Mick

Yes I miss the Drive In Movies. I took a girl named Valerie there to see Blazing Saddles. Some years later I actually saw the film. I do remember a great deal about Valerie.

  ...I hear ya Bobby.....

Mick

[CycleRanger]

STONE

aussie flick - nice bikes

I still remember the first time i saw Stone, i had never seen so many Z900's in one place in my life. The old drive in is no longer there but i still think about it when i drive by....You had to love the 70's..
Mick

OMG, I watched this last night. It so terrible in a good way! 
Wow, yeah nice bikes, I loved the paint jobs, but what awful dialogue and music!
What an unconvincing biker gang!  Hilarious!
Good DVD transfer with a "bonus" disk I haven't watched.

[bucky katt]

i finally got Stone on dvd today (good friend in queensland sent it to me) cheesy but cool as hell, in a 70's sort of way. i picked out Hugh Keays Byrne right away. i liked him better as Toecutter.

[Ryan 550k]

Stone.......is a trip.