Guzzi in Film - Harold and Maude

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Watched the 1971 black comedy, Harold and Maude.  A traffic patrolman pulled them over in a few scenes, and was riding a black Guzzi big block.  They got the best of him several times.  Once because his Guzzi was slow to kick-start, and in the end because his revolver (a Colt?) failed to fire.

I didn't care for the film, but seeing the Guzzi was a high point.

[lucian]

Hey Joe,  gotta wonder how guzzi's end up in so many low budget flicks. 

[Redrider]

May be due to the exchange rate at the time-Dollar vs Lire? LAPD surplus? If I recall, there was a chase scene with Clint Eastwood that started on a Guzzi and morphed to a Triumph for the jump into the water. Could be wrong. I have seen a lot and forgotten even more.

[Mayor_of_BBQ]

Loved that movie when I was a kid

Tom Skerritt as the hapless patrolman

[blackcat]

Tom Skerritt as the hapless patrolman

Skerritt was a last minute replacement if my memory is correct. I think they were going to use a real cop but something happened and Skerritt came in to fill the role.

[Markcarovilli]

Kick start??

[redrider90]

Harold and Maude one of my favorite all time cult classics along with Repo Man which also stars a Guzzi. [img width= height= alt=Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-9-12-45-PM" border="0]https://i.ibb.co/MRX4WGF/Screen-Shot-2014-09-01-at-9-12-45-PM.jpg[/img]


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[sign216]

Dave,
Yep, low budget flicks.  Empty wallets, just like the riders.

Redrider,
Repo Man has a Guzzi?  Haven't seen that one for 20 yrs, back when I was on BMW Airhead.

Blackcat and Skerrit,
The "patrolman" in the film looked like he had a hard time handling the bike.  Maybe a real motorcycle cop would have done better (and had a working revolver).

[blackcat]

The movie wasn’t a success when it hit the screens in 1971 but Ruth Gordon was no B actress or writer:

“Gordon married her second husband, writer Garson Kanin, in 1942. Gordon and Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn – Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). Both films were directed by George Cukor. The couple were close friends of Hepburn and Tracy, and incorporated elements of the actors' real personalities in the films. Gordon and Kanin received Academy Award nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life (1947), which was also directed by Cukor.”

“In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood. It was her first nomination for acting. Three years later, in 1969, she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby, a film adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling horror novel about a satanic cult residing in an Upper West Side apartment building in Manhattan. In accepting the award onstage, Gordon thanked the academy by saying, "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is ..." (rousing laughter from the audience). At the time she had been in the business for 50 years and was 72 years old. "And thank all of you who voted for me, and to everyone who didn't: please, excuse me", she added, prompting more laughter and applause.

Gordon won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for her role as Maude in Harold and Maude (with Bud Cort as her love interest).“

[chuck peterson]

One of my top ten movies of all time.

Maude, the character, survived the holocaust.

Tom Skerritt’s character is supposed to be flustered by Maude. Everyone is throughout the movie..no one can understand her, happy to have love from any source

Cat Stevens soundtrack

Harold’s approach to fake suicides is priceless, as well has cutting up the V12 Jaguar into a hearse

[Guzzi Gal]

One of my top ten movies of all time.

Mine too!

[twowheeladdict]

Don't think I watched it unless it showed up on broadcast television at some point.

Looks like it has pretty high critical and viewer ratings.  I'll have to look and see if I can stream it for free somewhere. 

[redrider90]

Dave,
Yep, low budget flicks.  Empty wallets, just like the riders.

Redrider,
Repo Man has a Guzzi? 

I've got my own copy of repo man on my computer.  Yep it's a Guzzi. this is a better view of it.