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#304 ·
  1. Loved "The Motorcycle Diaries" and young Chez.
  2. Big Faus and Little Halsey rocks.
  3. Got stoned and hit the brick wall at the A&W after watching Easy Rider at the drive in (friend Ralph's 55 Buick Special).
  4. Like everyone else, was awed by "On Any Sunday."
  5. Thought "Electra Glide in Blue" was cool.
  6. "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man" is an unwatchable piece of tripe as is "Stone Cold."
  7. Anne Margaret makes CC Rider. Like the sandwich scene, too.
  8. "World's Fastest Indian" = pure gold.
  9. Did anyone mention the Quentin Tarrentino vampire flick with Cheech Marin where George Clooney and family (Juliette Lewis) they go down to Mexico in a motorhome? Horrible film, but Selma Hayak is incredible and Juliette asks the psycho bad guy an unforgettable question.
 
#306 ·
Hehe- I downloaded some movies the other night (before I found this thread- I was thinking of this too) and ended up with Quadrophenia (heard it was about Mods and Rockers). It was an alright movie. The only reason I stuck with it was because I was expecting to see more of the Big Brits than some gaudy little vespas........

I also downloaded Psychomania- just started the first few minutes. Looks like it will be interesting to say the least..............

Got some others downloading that I picked up off this thread- pretty stoked about that. Gonna put them in my MP3 player to watch in Iraq.
 
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#307 ·
On Any Sunday, The Wild One, Little Fauss and Big Halsey, World's fastest Indian, Hell's Angels '69, Timerider, etc. are the biggies of MC movies, there's a couple of more obscure oldies that are great flicks for motorcycle people...One is "The Pace That Thrills" about a couple of motorcycle racing buddies and their quest to develope a new bike and their competition over a female newshound. Great 1950 flat track and TT footage. Someone mentioned "Dragstrip Riot", there was a sequel that starred John Ashley and Carl Switzer, AKA Alfalfa of Our Gang fame. Campy, but it has some great riding scenes and old Brit iron.
Check out "Coogan's Bluff"...It's not a biker flick, but there is a great scene of Clint Eastwood on a '67 Bonneville chasing the bad guy, mounted on a 500cc Daytona through Central Park. Eddie Mulder was one of the stunt riders. Possibly the best MC chase scene ever!
The desert riding/ chase scenes in "Hell's angels '69" aren't bad either...Eddie Mulder and J.N. Roberts doing the stunt riding.

Can anyone tell me where I might latch on to a VHS or DVD copy of the movie that was mentioned a couple pf posts back..."Code Two"? I've never seen that one and the scene with Keenan Wynn has me wanting to see the whole flick!
 
#308 ·
Mad Max has got to be my favorite in terms of crazy bike-gang imagery. Maybe it was because I saw it first when I was 10 years old, but those bikes seemed so realistic to me in a ravaged near future...nothing too radical, just functional and fast. The bubble trike (I think it was a Kawa or a Honda) and that tube-top chick in the flamed Impala were burned into my adolescent brain...
 
#313 ·
Well, I will caveat this with the fact that it is a scooter, but the first five minutes of the (original) Luc Besson French version of "Taxi", with the guy weaving through the streets of Marseilles in one unbroken shot (culminating in a brake stand and a front flip over the handlebars) is pretty good, especially since it is a throwaway scene that has nothing to do with the plot, and yet was probably a bitch to film.

And what about the opening scene of "Lawrence of Arabia", with the beautiful overhead shot of T.E. Lawrence approaching his Brough Superior and heading out for his final ride? Classic.
 
#315 ·
The Billy Jack picture was 'Born Losers' There was a really neat trike in it with upside down bars.
The other road-racing picture people spoke about where the hero dies at the end was called 'Silver Dream Racer' with pop-star David Essex in it and a gang of 70's English racers as extras. The bike was a 700cc four cylinder Sparton that Erik Buell bought and tried to make work, before the AMA outlawed the class it was due to race in.
 
#317 ·
George Formby - No Limit
A chimney sweep builds his own motor-bike and enters the T.T. races as George Shuttleworth, speed demon, having 'borrowed' some of his grandad's money to do so.
Made in location in the Isle of Man, for £30.000, the climax of the film comes when the young amateur is racing towards the winning line - only to run out of petrol! He pushes his bike the last 500 yards, with an unsporting rival speeding past just seconds after he staggers across the finishing line. This scene was shot fifteen times on a hot June day; on the final occasion the star genuinely collapsed at the line, and a doctor was called. This is the 'take' that can now be seen in the film. Brendan Ryan.
George Formby at his best! This film has it all, a young unknown rider with a substandard motor bike journeys to the Isle of Man, gets ducked in the Irish Sea, loses his wallet and befriends the lovely Florence Desmond. Together they share many experiences culminating in the dramatic race itself, by this time George is mounted on a Rainbow motor-cycle. George of course triumphs in the end, not only winning the race but also winning an agency from Rainbow, and winning the heart of Florence Desmond as well.
Probably the most popular of all the films - it must certainly be in anybody's top three. This was the first film George made after his move into the 'big time' with Associated Talking Pictures. The film is still shown in the Isle of Man during the T.T. race week and always pulls a good audience when shown at the Society conventions. - Who could ask for more? Peter Pollard

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