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Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 film starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy Green Bush as his partner. The movie was filmed in Monument Valley, and was produced and directed by James William Guercio (who is best known as the producer of Chicago's first eleven albums). The film garnered a great deal of critical acclaim upon its release but saw only limited commercial success.

Several members of Chicago appear in minor roles, including Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Lee Loughnane, and Walter Parazaider. The band also appears on the movie soundtrack.

Plot summary

Blake plays a motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen who patrols the rural Arizona highways with his partner, nicknamed "Zipper". Wintergreen is a rookie cop who resents being in traffic enforcement and wants to be transferred to homicide investigation. At first his supervisors ignore his request for a transfer. He stumbles upon a dead body, an apparent suicide which Wintergreen believes is a murder, and he is transferred to homicide to help with the case. Wintergreen's relationship with his fellow officers deteriorates as Wintergreen begins increasingly to identify with the hippies whom the other officers are endlessly harassing. Workplace politics cause him to be quickly demoted back to traffic enforcement. Wintergreen then makes another discovery about his partner: Zipper's dream was to own his own motorcycle, and he was embezzling money to pay for it. Wintergreen shoots Zipper in self-defense, but shortly after loses his own life in an ending reminiscent of that in Easy Rider
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