Archive for September, 2008


Iconic City: Seminal Movie Images of Phoenix #1

Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio, 1973)
He’s A Good Cop. On A Big Bike. On A Bad Road.

Electra Glide in Blue

Electra Glide in Blue

Locations mentioned: Buckeye Road, Camelback, Superstition Mountains. Locations spotted: Saguaro Lake, north of Mesa; Red Mountain on the 87. Produced and Directed by Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago’s manager (look for Peter Cetera and Terry Kath), it was his only film. Check the great soundtrack. Basically a good-cop-befriends-hippie plot that inevitably (it’s a 70’s piece) ends badly, it has one of the most outrageously long closing-shots you’ll ever see. The movie poster used to hang on Frank Furillo’s wall.

View the trailer (with the opening sequence TOTALLY ripped from Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising!):