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Thu Jul 26 2007
Robert_g_roseM>at<csx.com
moto guzzi movie list
I Think that the picture of ann-margret on a guzzi is from the movie
called "the profit" ???
I Saw this once upon a time from a satelite feed, but I am not sure
about the title. It was a very young ann-margret, learning to ride
a motorcycle and at one point her boyfriend/ strong man, picks up the guzzi
in his arms, walks over and throws it into a canal. A terrible thing to
do with a guzzi.I don't really remember the basis of the story but I would
like to have a copy if a dvd or tape is available..any one else remeber
seeing this?
Tennessee usa
From:
Patrick Hayes [mailto:pehayes
comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 10:27 AM
Several years ago I saw and reported on an Italian Film about the North
Africa Campaign of WWII.
LA LINEA DEL FUOCO [The Line of Fire]
The 27th Pavia Division is in stagnant trench warfare against
Montgomery's British artillery at El Alamein, just outside of
Alexandria, Egypt. The film chronicles the lives, heroism, and
deaths
of this Italian force in a futile war effort. A Moto Guzzi SuperAlce
plays a pivotal role in the beginning and the end of the film.
There
are two lengthy scenes of the SuperAlce in operation.
I have been searching worldwide for this film. It has only been
available in Italian language for the European Region and also an Asian
region edition with Japanese Subtitles.
I can now happily report that the movie has been released on DVD to
the
US market with English subtitles. It is an accurate war drama
film with
the added bonus of extensive vintage Guzzi footage.
Browse to amazon.com and search out #B0009Y2618 to get your own copy.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
http://home.comcast.net/~superalce
Fri Feb
10 2006
guzzi1952hotmail
Moto Guzzi in movie
Seen an Ambassador or eldorado in The Muppet Movie ridden by a cop
Patrick
Hayes [pehayescomcast.net]
Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: Another Guzzi Movie
Watched another Guzzi movie that I don't think has been reported previously.
La Citta della Donne (The City of Women)
1980
Federico
Fellini production
Marcello Mastroianni in the lead
Midway through, our hero gets driven to the train station on a nice
Guzzi SuperAlce single.
DO NOT watch this movie unless you have a serious stash of some mind
altering concoction on hand. I didn't. Suffered through in
case there might be more Guzzi footage. That Fellini was one seriously
strange dude!
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
.
Dave
Richardson
Last year I teased of a big-deal Christmas movie. Well, it never happened.
We had heard that George Clooney would ride an MGS-01 around Lake Como
in a chase scene in Ocean’s 12. An even bigger no-show involved Bewitched,
where a Café Sport not only was supposed to appear but actually
be a part of the script. So here’s one for real, ‘cause I saw it (and after
seeing the previews it will seem the most unlikely): there’s a Guzzi (probably
a T-3 California) in the closing scene of Aeon Flux.
Ciao,
Dave Richardson
Moto International
7701 Aurora Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103 USA
From:
Rich Maund [mailto:rgmaundnetzero.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 10:45 PM
To: MGCLtopica.com
Subject: (MGCL) Guzzi movie
Folks
There's an old movie from the 70's that I have been trying to rent
for years. It's never in the video store's catalog. I finally found it,
of all
places, at Overstock.com in their $1 bargain video list. I wound up
getting four movies on VHS from them and with shipping it was under $8!
The movie? "FM"
Great cast, even better music and concert footage of Jimmy Buffet and
Linda Ronstandt. And as a bonus.... There's a couple of LA motorcycle cops
chasing a Porche Speedster in the beginning of the flick. The one in the
rear is a Guzzi!
I get the feeling I'm the only one who even remembers this movie. But
seeing it this evening, it was even better than I remember. Great flick
and a dollar well spent.
Rich Maund
Rich's Cycle Upholstery
Chesapeake, Virginia.
RichsCycleUpholsteryHomePage.html
Kindly forwarded by Sheldon Aubut
Houlton Wisconsin USA
http://www.sheldonaubut.com
From:
Patrick Hayes [mailto:pehayesomcast.net]
Friday, July 01, 2005 1:25 AM
Subject: Another Guzzi Movie
Watched an historical movie this evening.
The Bicycle Thief (1948) ("Ladri di biciclette")
Italian with English Subtitles.
Our hero is destitute in postwar Rome. He manages to get a rare
job which requires him to own a bicycle for transport. One day at
work, the bicycle gets stolen. The movie chronicles his search
for recovery of the bicycle and his relationship to his son in the
process. From reports by relatives, it is a very accurate representation
of postwar life.
At the 34:00 point, he is searching a Saturday flea market full of
stolen bicycles and stripped parts. Among all this is a wonderful
view of a Guzzino (Guzzi Cardelino, 65cc). Just a passing glance
for 5 seconds, but unmistakeable. When I went back over in
slo-mo, even Regina was able to discern the eagle tank logo.
Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA Kindly forwarded by Sheldon Aubut
Houlton Wisconsin USA
http://www.sheldonaubut.com
Wed Jun
08 2005
ankamatpg.com.au
moto guzzi in tv ad ( 750s or s3)
A Tv ad for Mazda 3 in Australia, features 2 closing shots of a spoked
wheel, (and maybe black muffler) shot of a 750 s or s3, the first shot
is
head on with a small perspex wind shield above the light, with the engine/leg
protectors clearly visible. The second is side on, cheers Andrew
There is now a page devoted to
Moto
Guzzi SuperAlce in the Movies
"The
Luzhin Defence" starring John Torturro and Emily Watson, filmed 2000.
I saw it on IFC the independent film channel.
Set in 1920's on Lake Como, Italy. Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Luzhin is an eccentric Russion chess champion attending a chess competition
in Como. Late in the movie, some thug takes our hero and dumps him
in the mountains so he can't continue in the tournament.
After laying on the ground overnight, he is rescued by a small patrol
of Italian army. Four soldiers arrive by Guzzi and sidecar.
All four of them in one rig and now they must carry away the victim
too! The Guzzi scene is only about 90 seconds, but it is a
nice flywheel side shot of the bike. It looks a little too new for
the period. Didn't have much of a look, but it seems to be a Sport
15 or GTV which would have been 30's vintage. Also, the car is located
on the right side. Earlier Guzzi rigs were copies of the British
and had the car on the left side.
A little side note: the funeral at the end has the hero's casket arriving
over the lake carried in one of those traditional Lake Como fishing rowboats
with the three hoops over the top. Part of the tourist scene now, common
in local paintings.
Patrick Hayes -- pehayes at comcast.net
I was
watching TV the other day, and a commercial for Checkers, a fast food place,
comes on. I see a couple of motorcycles in the ad. The first
is easily recognizable as a Ducati, but I'm not sure which. The second
looks vaguely familiar, but it wasn't until I slowed the scene down using
my Tivo that I saw that it was a red V50. You couldn't see the name
on the bike, but the style was unmistakable, and I got a good look at the
engine, which gave it away. This commercial has been airing for only
a short time, so it's a new one. I guess the director or producer
has good tastes in bikes!
Ride Safe, Yaniv -- guzziknight at yahoo
I just
found your web group listing Moto Guzzis in the movies and have a few observations
to offer:
Imagine where Moto Guzzi might have been in US sales if Marlon Brando
had rode that Guzzi in The Wild One!
A few years ago Billy Joel stopped by our shop, Moto International in
Seattle, when on tour. He wanted Guzzi overalls for Elton John. He would
have bought a red Jackal but his truck had already left for places south.
Nick Hayden says he bought one from them at Monroe Motors in San Francisco.
I’ve heard that Harrison Ford is a Guzzi fan as well.
There were many attempts to get a Guzzi on Friends before one ever appeared.
The show’s producer is the son of the man who ran Guzzi’s US corporate
office in the late 1990s. Small world. (Note
from Sheldon: The Guzzi that appeared in Friends belongs to my friend
Patrick Hayes from the Bay area. In 1991 I flew out there to visit
my parents and spend some time with Patrick and other friends. That
is the bike that Patrick let me ride for several days.)
In the movie Titus
a three-wheel Ercole is used to bring back the severed heads of two sons
to his father.
I've heard that our local grunge band Soundgarten has an 850-T in one
of their videos. I'm too old to know that for sure.
You heard it here first: the best Guzzi movie appearance ever might
be in theaters this Christmas!
Ciao,
Dave Richardson
Moto International
7701 Aurora Ave. N.
Seattle, WA 98103 USA
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It isn't a movie, but the singer Billy Joel rides a Guzzi:
I happened to turn on the boob tube last night and caught a glimpse
of the surreal life of the privileged group who call The Hamptons home.
Near the end of the show was a funeral for a restaurateur who crashed his
car into a tree. Billy Joel attended riding a Guzzi. I always
thought he had class, over and above his beautiful ex-wife, whom certainly
was a catch in her day, and still is today! :-) -- Mark
-- Amherst VA -- Maitriman2001 at aol.com
Gordon DeLaMare of this list was in town for business this week and
stayed here last night. We watched a tape of last year's hit movie
"Life is Beautiful (Vita
è bella, La)" . (1998 DVDVHS
English
VHS
Italian
with subtitles) The opening scene has our hero's car escorted by two Italian
soldiers on motorbikes. WOW, WAS I ECSTATIC! The view is quick, but
these were undoubtedly GUZZI SUPERALCE 500. Both have the forward
leg shields.
The one driving on the right, (your left as you view their approach)
clearly shows its very long, up-angle and out-angle exhaust pipe. In the
history of Guzzi, only the SuperAlce used this precise pipe location and
position on the driver's left side. (Unfortunately, Guzzi didn't use this
pipe until the late forties and early fifties and the scene is from the
30's, but who wants to argue artistic license details.) You can find a
nice photo of my bike at:
http://members.aol.com/pehayes/alce.jpg
Study that exhaust and then go watch the opening scenes. -- pehayes
at aol.com
From Sheldon: I can confirm this one...
Is someone
still keeping a list of Guzzis seen in the movies?
(From
Sheldon: You bet'cha)
Last night I finally got to see 1953's 'Roman
Holiday'. When Audrey Hepburn makes her escape from the palace,
she climbs into the back of one of those motorcycle/scooter-based three-wheeled
goods delivery vehicles the Italians used everywhere after the war.
When the driver climbs onto the seat, you can see a familiar eagle logo
on the tank...
Later when she and Gregory Peck go tearing through the streets of Rome
on a Vespa, they are chased by police on Guzzi singles (and war- surplus
Jeeps, oddly enough). -- Chris Kelly -- chris_kelly
at fastmail.fm --- VHS
From Sheldon: Saw this one and confirmed
it myself.
Magnum
Force- Clint Eastwood - 1973 VHS
----- V7 Specials ????? -- Sheldon Aubut Did you notice the major flaw
in Magnum Force? in the final showdown at the wharf, Clint goes through
the remarkable effort of kick-starting a Guzzi. As we all know that is
tough to do. (because they are all electric start) When he drove
out from behind the crates, the tank and bodywork appeared close to correct
but it looked like a Triumph engine on the bike (but it could still be
euro content). -- David Whitmore
The first shot of the Guzzi shows the name Ambassador. The second shot
is the other side and I couldn't see a name. This is during the first 10
minutes of the film. -- JerryK
I believe there was a Guzzi in "Harold
and Maude". Very funny scene. -- Cynthia Standlee Yes, there is a Guzzi
(V7?, Amb.?, Eldo?) in the movie "Harold and Maude". It is being ridden
by a "cop" that's attempting to pull "Harold" and "Maude" over for something.
He eventually does, but then the movie's main characters take off on the
Guzzi while the "cop" is going through their car. :) --- Rick
Nagle(Can anyone positively identify the bike
- Sheldon)
If anybody else has young ones, maybe they have seen Disney's "Witch
Mountain". They used a Guzzi (police mount) which was driven off
a cliff unmanned. -- Rick Blass Hi! I’m Tom and live in Phoenix,AZ., and
am an avid Moto Guzziphile. I have two Eldos. Anywho, I can confirm the
sighting of a Goose in Disney’s
Escape
to Witch Mountain. I had just returned from the Az Rally, and was relaxing
after the long ride home, when I turned on the boob-tube to the movie.
I changed channels several times, but there was nothing better on, so I
watch it. The guy that played Mr. Douglas on Green Acres was driving a
motor home and got pulled over. The cop on a mint Eldo. He gets off the
scoot, and it promptly starts itself and puts itself in gear and drives
over the cliff.Not a pretty thing to see. I just hope the movie people
had enough sense to use a wooden mock-up instead of wasting one of the
best touring bikes of all time. That’s just my opinion,’cause I have a
LAPD. -- TomTea
with Mussolini, 1999
DVDVHS
- Moto Guzzi with sidecar but I wasn't sure what model it was.
-- Sheldon -- biker at cwizard.com
I'll confirm your "Tea With Mussolini" sighting. I saw it last summer
and posted to the list at the time. (I saw it first, nah-nah, nah,
nah, naaaaa, nah!)8-P
I'm not an afficianado of old Guzzis so I don't know what models they
were either, but I do know that they were "bacon slicers", and the movie
contained several scenes including one where this bike was tooling along
through the Italian countryside until the riders ran out of gas.
Since this was WWII and the Germans and the Italians were allies, there
were also some scenes with BMW motorcycles. All in all, a good showing
of old Geese and Beemers. -- John Filak -- jf_goosenbeemers
at yahoo
Achtung! Attenzione!
Now there's yet another new movie featuring our favorite motorcycles.
"Bacon Slicers" with sidecars (mounted on the left side, of course)!
Pre-war beemers in full military regalia! Fascists on Guzzis.
Nazis on BMWs. Nice scene of a Falcone zipping down a country lane
in Northern Italy! And a beautiful pre-war Italian luxury car - I'd
really like to know what it was.
Oh, and it was a pretty good flick, too!
Aufwiedersehen! Ciao! -- John Filak -- jf_goosenbeemers
at yahoo
A movie
which showed a lot of Guzzis, albeit pre-war singles, was "A
Month by the Lake", which came out in 1996. Actually its a pretty awful
film; the only virtues were the setting (Lake Como), the presence of Uma
Thurman (although she looks miserable the whole time) and six or eight
Falcones and Airones buzzing around. Check it out at your own risk.
Cheers! -Robert curran5315 at aol.com A Month By The Lake- available
on video It came out in 93 or 94 and Lynn Redgrave and Uma Thurman star
in it. There are several nice shots of single cylinder Guzzis in it. It
takes place in Northern Italy in the 50's and there's a lot of period bikes.
Some production guys really did there research on this one! - Kevin Seiler
mailto:mseiler at racal-pelagos.com
Actually came out in 1995. The Internet
Movie Database has one of the biggest listings that I have ever seen.
Roger Ebert even gave the move three and 1/2 stars. -Sheldon
Caught a not-too-bad movie made by HBO about
2 (1995?) years ago which starred Billy Zane. He played a drifter who drove
around in a great International pickup / Airstream trailer rig, and specialized
in romancing lonely housewives. Kept a black and green T cafe bike in the
bed. Didn't catch the title. "Lonely Housewife Trailer Park Biker Queen"
perhaps. -- Jason Moore On The Moto Guzzi's in Films page: Jason
Moore spoke about a Billy Zane starred movie with a T-cafe bike, and further
down Mark Kaczmarczyk speaks about Lake Consequence, these two entries
speak about the same movie.... You might want to get
these two entries together? - Guus (Guz) Duijvestijn guus at psi.ch
Here it is: But is it a "T", "V7 Sport",
or "LeMans"? (Sheldon)
Saw a soft core/thriller called "Lake
Consequence" in which the "hero" rides a nicely done up V7 Sport or
possibly early LeMans. Clearly the bike belonged to someone on the film
crew and they recorded the real sound of the engine while he was riding.
He really motored as well! -- Mark Kaczmarczyk / imkx at cantire.comThen
Came Bronson - TV Movie - starring Micheal Parks with Bonnie
Bedilia - 1969
Then
Came Bronson - US TV Show starring Micheal Parks - 1969 As to
MotoGuzzis in TCB (as Bronson's motorcycle), not a one!
According to the folks who made the movie and series:
Movie:
2 Sportsters
1 CZ
26-episode series:
4 Sportsters (including the 2 from the movie)
1 (Aermacchi) H-D Sprint SS (350cc)
1 (Aermacchi) H-D Rapido (175cc)
1 1970 Sportster with "boat-tail" fiberglas seat/fender assembly
There was a hill climb in the movie, and a hill climb and motocross
in the episodes; whether any MotoGuzzis show up in these (all of which
were brought by the "extras"), I don't know. Hope this is of some help.
Please check out my web site on Then Came Bronson. -- jonpf
at thecia.net http://www2.thecia.net/users/jonpf/tcb.htm
Was watching the TV yesterday and they showed a preview of the
new
James Bond movie ( Tomorrow
Never Dies). Thought I saw him falling off of a Guzzi. Anybody
heard/seen anything? Wasn't sure of the model but it looked like a newer
model. Hope they show more of the bike then him just falling off.
--
Ian Adkins.
Bust
- No Guzzi - It is the new BMW cruiser - Sheldon
How about
Terminator
2: Judgment Day, I’m sure it was a Guzzi, the bad guy rode it
up the fire stairs, my favorite bit of the film. - Cathy. I'm
afraid that the bike ridden up the stairs by the bad robot in Terminator2
ain't a Guzzi but a police Kawasaki. Entertaining, however, to see Arnold
jump several meters down on a Harley Fatboy. Probably Whitepower suspension.
- Pastaboy
The other day, while nursing the flu, I was watching a documentary(!) on
VH1 about the history of disco. As my formative years alas coincided with
this painful phenomena, and due to the Sudafed induced delirium, I was
paralyzed and unable to change channels. Suddenly, across the screen flashed
the
Village People parading and prancing around
as they did back then. Then it was cut to old home movie footage of the
band on a photo set for either publicity photos or an album cover, when
to my surprise I saw that there was a leather-and-chain-clad mustachioed
band member draped over an Ambassador (the bike). Laughed? I nearly started
- Nicolas Just as plain as day
is a Guzzi on a record album cover of "The Village People." -- DashRiprok
[DashRiprok at aol.com]
I know there is a following of people keeping track of Moto Guzzi's used
in movies. I have a new one I hadn't heard mention yet. I was watching
the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football and they had a commercial for a new
movie coming out soon called " Rush
Hour ". I don't remember exactly what the movie was about but in the
beginning you see a motorcycle driving up. At first I thought
it was a Ducati but as it got closer you can see the eagle on the front
of the fairing. I was hoping they would show the commercial again but they
didn't. So the bike is either a red 1100 Sport or Daytona. I'm sure
if I see it again I would notice the heads and front forks to determine
the year. Lets hear some backup and more information on this one.
See you at the movies!! -- Doll, William E. (Bill) [DollWE
at bv.com]
(New Jackie Chan movie - Sheldon) I caught
a glimpse of it also. They show the front of it and you see the Guzzi Eagle,
but there wasn't enough for me to tell if it is a Daytona or a Sport.
-- Orwig, Wayne [WayneOrwig at GA.SLR]
Ah hah! That's the one I saw too! So I'm not dreaming... ! :)
It looked to me like a Daytona. -- Godfrey DiGiorgi [ramarren
at bayarea.net]
Hey Y'all
Went to see the new movie Rush
Hour over the weekend and it had two motorcycles in it. One a black
UMJ was used by the bad guy and the other a Red Moto Guzzi 1100 Sport was
used by Chris Tucker, a good guy. It was used in a brief chase scene and
was on the screen for maybe 30 seconds but it looked good and was shown
in a high performance role. Euro motos are making the the big screen more
and more often. -- Jim twoup at mindspring
The Guzzi in Rush
Hour is definitely the later fuel injected model with the different
mud guard for USD forks and the new graphics on the tail. Pretty brief
but cool footage. Great ad for Moto Guzzi. -- Joe Loss Joe.Loss at Jacobs.com
Those of you who have kids might want to confirm this Guzzi sighting for
me.
In the Disney movie "101
Dalmatians", with Glenn Close as Cruella DeVil, I'm pretty sure there's
a Guzzi (LMIII?) that shows up very briefly. It's happens towards the beginning
of the movie, right when she pulls up to her business. There's an overhead
shot of her car slowing down and pulling over to the curb. Look at the
motorcycle that's right in front of her car!
The next shot should show the bike passing right in front
of the camera. I'm fairly sure it's a Guzzi, it's red, it's got some kind
of bodywork on it a la LeMans III, etc.! I haven't seen anyone else
mention a Guzzi in this particular movie. Confirm or deny?
Robert Brooks, Camarillo, CA
Was watching 101 Dalmations last night and I though I saw a Guzzi in
the first scene. Just passed in the background but I thought I saw the
cylinder heads sticking out. Can anyone confirm/deny the sighting?
After freeze framing this part of the movie numerous times on my home VCR,
I can now say with authority: It is a motorcycle..... but could be any
kind of standard at all. -- Russell Barr guzziot at localaccess.com
Today I watched a movie called "The
Electric Horseman" (1979 DVDVHS
)
or something starring Robert Redford. In it is a scene where a gaggle of
cops on Guzzis chase our hero mounted on a horse. Guess who wins ? Well,
I never said that it was a good movie... -- Mike kimsab
at gte.net I didn't realize you still had Electric Horseman on your "unconfirmed
list". There's a scene after the first 30 minutes or so that has
quite a few police eldos chasing Robert Redford (on a horse). Most of the
bikes seem to end up inexplicably flying through the air and crashing.
-- Daniel R. Kalal dankalal at southwind.net
The
Italian Job - Micheal Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill - 1969 VHS
I saw this classic British film again about a year ago - there is a scene
where the 2 or 3 Minis are escaping through the streets of Rome after the
heist. The streets are full of football fans if I remember rightly,
and the Minis drive in and out of courtyards and up and down stairs to
get away. There is a scene where, I think, 2 "Vigili Urbani" turn
up on bikes to chasethe Minis. They are (I'm 90% sure) a couple of
Nuovo Falcones, painted in blue, and one of the traffic cops lays one of
them flat very neatly. Their exhaust note is unmistakeable. Good
film though, very 60s, very English. -- Adam Bolton adam at
bolzin.demon.co.uk
Definitely. At least three, most likely Gallettos. I have the film on
tape at home. It's almost worthy of crying over when you see beautiful
little Alfa Romeo Guilia police cars being destroyed. Oh yes, the
story's pretty funny too. ;) -- Godfrey DiGiorgi
-- ramarren at bayarea.net
Saw another movie a few weeks ago. I don't recall the title,but it was
a Burt Reynolds movie about being a stunt
man (really bad movie). While driving his truck backward at highway speed,
he gets pulled over by CHP on,of course, a Guzzi. I'm afraid I didn't stay
with the movie to find any more "high point" in the production. The movie
fits in with the Genre and time frame of the "Smokey and the Bandit" and
Cannonball series, and is about as good (not saying too much). -- David
Whitmore Thought I would let you know that movie with Burt driving the
truck backwards is called Hooper
just saw it today on TV -- Big Red. (So is it a
Guzzi? What model? - Sheldon)
I was just watching "Hooper"
with Burt Reynolds. In the first 30 minutes or so Burt gets pulled over
by what appears to be a CHP riding an Eldorado. -- Stan Rife
-- srife at flash.net
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Man 1984 -- VHS
starts out zooming through a series map details then fades into a desolate
desert road scene with what looks like a Rambler weaving down the road.
The weaving car passes a speed trap with a cop sitting on a Moto Guzzi.
The bike cop proceeds to ensue case and pull over the errant driver.
The bike cop gets a bit too curious and looks at what was in the trunk.
A fitting reward. -- Eric Blume -- mailto:erkaneva
at murkworks.net One of my favorite movies and I forgot about that
scene, and yes it is a MG but I will have to re-watch it to see what model
-- Sheldon
The
kid's are watching 'Up In Smoke',
( VHS
)
and when the cop pulls over the van made of dope, when he starts up it
says Kawasaki, but when he pulls them over it's a V-engined Guzzi (w/ generator
and single disk front, so I guess Eldo/Ambo, I have it on video).
-- Tom -- joemama at ticino
-- http://members.tripod.com/CH_ili
Ok, enough of the macho leading men on the Ducatis, here' one for the Guzzisti:
In Cheech and Chong's "Up In
Smoke" the stoned cop that pulls them over is in a LAPD. Gotta love
that. -- Mark Kromer -- markk at mynode.com
I don't know if this one is on the list, but I thought I would send
it in anyway. I was waiting for Robot Wars to come on the Comedy
Channel last night. In the mean time the Cheech and Chong movie "Up
In Smoke" was on. There is the part where they're pulled over by
a motorcycle cop while driving the truck made of pot. The bike was
a late model Eldo w/disc brake. -- Bill Doll --
dollwe
at bv.comThe
movie was called "The Car" and it starred
James Brolin and it was made in about 1977. I saw one on Mystery Theater
3000 awhile back that was filmed in Italy. They had a few Moto Guzzi's
in it also. It was not a very good movie which is why it was on MST3K.
-- Dave Carlson -- dcarlson
at landoflakes.com
From Sheldon: Dave sent me the movie
and I watched it myself to confirm.
Went to see the new Coen brothers film this weekend "The
Man Who Wasn't There". Overall, I was underwhelmed and not
uplifted. However, the protagonist, Ed Crain (played by Billy Bob
"I Get to Do It with Angelina Jolie" Thornton) is a barber who works in
a shop named "Guzzi's". So the movie was not entirely without redeeming
features. -- Keep Rolling, -- Corey Levenson
-- Clevenson2 at aol.com
My wife and I went to see the latest Coen Bros. movie, "The Man Who
Wasn't There" with Billy Bob Thornton (Sex toy for A.Jolie); good movie,
blah,blah,blah. Anyway, Billy Bob is a barber who works in his brother
in laws barbershop named "Guzzi's". I wanted to see this film
and my wife didn't know anything about the plot but as soon as the Guzzi
named was mentioned I get a voice in my ear, "this isn't the sole reason
we're seeing this film?" I wonder if the Coen's are Guzzi owners?
-- Tom LaNasa -- BlackKat-1 at Juno
Recently,
I saw a Yugoslavian film called "Underground",
it was a movie on the wars Yugoslavia has suffered thru the last 50 years
- WWII and the Bosnian-Croatian wars. The Guzzi, which I'm sure is
a Falcone with a sidehack, is only seen two-three times. First seen for
5 seconds in an alley, and later on in the movie it's seen parked on the
quay beneath the boat. I don't know if this info is sufficient for
an adding to the Guzzi movie list, but I'll leave that for you to decide.
Kim - Copenhagen, DK -- kim_isdal
at worldonline.dk
Rented
an 'indie' movie last night. It's called "Frogs for Snakes" (1998).
There are s#!tloads of Guzzis in this film. Be advised though, it's
not so much a film as it is a actor's showplace. Not much of a plot
or production values, but a lot of character actors slumming it in lead
roles. Pretty hammy.
Anyway, here's the rundown on Guzzis in it:
Yellow Centauro Sport (that later on gets described as "yeah, you know
the guy, he rides a Moto Guzzi 900")
two 1100 Sports, one red, the other black
a California 3 ratbike, sprayed flat black (the only cruiser Guzzi
that made me think to myself "cool bike"
a V-50
In fact, the only bikes in this film are Guzzis. -- Kev
-- mseiler at racal-pelagos.com
The
Wild Angels- Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda - 1966
The
Wild One - Marlon Brando - 1954
DVDVHS
Concerning Guzzis on movies: The Wild Ones with M.B.: I do not remember
which bikes they rode on the movie, but I remember a poster with M.B.
He was on a bike with a trophy bound on the steering and on the gasoline
tank, you can see "Moto G", but no more. --- Luigi Rotta
Marlon Brando rode a Triumph in The Wild One --
DashRiprok
[DashRiprok at aol.com]
The bike that Marlan Brando rode was a 1952 650 twin carb Triumph Thunderbird.
The motorcycle that 'forced' Harley to build the 'K' model. Rode
one from Spokane WA. to Ft. Campbell KY. in 1955. -- Ron Bishop
-- Guzzi01 at aol.com
CHiPs
- US TV Show - Larry Wilcox, Erik Estrada - 1977-1983, Members of
the list are debating whether MGs were ever used in these shows. Conventional
wisdom indicates that they were, in the early episodes, but switched to
Kawasaki at some point. Need verification.
An MTV
series from several years ago featured a Moto Guzzi.
I remember
once seeing the Roy Orbison video "I drove all night",
where there was also a black Guzzi - probably an old Ambo. And guess what
- it got kicked too... ---- Topi Kuusinen, Finland
What
about a Tina Turner video with two V7 Sport
in it? -- Jean-Marc Lederman, Belgium
Although
Guzzis are not even part of the plot line, if you watch old "Mannix"
(US TV series of a LA private eye) you can spot police Guzzis. They can
be found when Mannix is at the police station trying to get information
out of the affable police lieutenant or shots of Mannix in his convertible
(GTO?) as he passes motorcycle cops. -- Bruce Giller
I saw
a Charles Bronson movie where these Italian
cops were chasing him at very high speed around some treacherous mountain
roads. They were doing some extremely crazy stunts -- very exciting. Can't
remember the name though. -- Michael Morrison
I am
pretty sure a Guzzi (one of the 500 bikes) was smashed in Die
Hard III. I lived in NYC at the time this was filmed and somehow
ended up with the gas tank from this bike (only the back end was smashed).
-- corey saft
I was at the home of Son #1 for Christmas dinner and they had the Disney
Channel on for the kiddies. I wasn't paying a lot of attention, but
I glanced at it just as the bad guy rode away on what appeared be an Eldorado
with a sidehack. The movie was: "It almost wasn't
Christmas" starring Charles Durning. Anyone else see this movie?
- Sheldon AubutI
have seen this movie WAAAAAY too many times. The first time I saw the movie
it caught my eye too. I am afraid however that is an older model BMW. Believe
me, the movie is too bad to warrant further watching to see anything other
than the bike. - David
Whitmore
Saw
a B(D?)-grade Tele-movie a while back with a couple of Guzzi appearances
- called "Fist of the North Star". Attention
Hollywood: it's about time we saw a Sport or Daytona featured like the
916 in Speed 2. - Andrew - Singapura
(Just
to stop any confusion before it starts: - Sheldon) Oh,
and not Guzzis, but three DUC 900 SS's starred in the Mel Gibson starred
film Conspiracy Theory. Too bad the sound was not up to par. -- Guus
(Guz) Duijvestijn guus at psi.ch
Check
out The Electric Horseman starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda.
The police, while riding their police Guzzi's, chase RR while he is riding
a horse! They do a bit of off'road too. -- DashRiprok [DashRiprok
at aol.com]
I
went to go see "Shooting
Fish" ( 1998 DVDVHS
) the other night. It's a good movie. Of course I don't generally post
movie reviews to the list: it has little bits of a Moto Guzzi LeMans I
in it for about 1 second. You'd have to be very familiar with Guzzis to
pick it out, I think. You can see a rocker cover (polished) and then a
character moves and you can see most of the red fairing and headlight.
It's in the first fifteen minutes or so, when they're putting something
in the trunk of a car. Not worth seeing just for the Guzzi, of course (even
thought it appears to a nice LeMans), but it was a very good movie.
-- Brian Harper I am not much of a film buff at all. I've heard the
name of this film is it British ? If it is it makes me wonder if it is
the same Le Mans that I have spotted many times in the background of British
TV programs. I have seen it so often I am convinced it belongs to someone
involved with the making of the various comedies/dramas etc who likes to
have it parked up in the background. I haven't seen it for awhile so maybe
the owner has progressed to film work ! -- Dave Davies, Belton, North
Lincolnshire, UK.
Another one for the movie list, assuming you don't already have it...
(I may have mentioned this one before, I forget) A few months ago my girlfriend
and I rented a video from the SF section called "Texas
Gladiators 2020" ( Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro (1982)) which
turned out to be a pretty poor example of the post-apocalyptic Mad Max/Road
Warrior genre without the humour of the original... Some of the bad guys
ran around on bikes, mostly cannon-fodder class extras on assorted Japanese
two-stroke dirtbikes, however their leader occasionally showed up in the
background on an older Goose, looked like an Ambassador or Eldo...
Can't say I recommend the flick, but for the sake of completeness...
Arthur Torrey
In the movie Where the Buffalo Roam, Bill Murray as Hunter S. Thompson,
runs into a police motorcycle (Moto Guzzi). What a shame. --
Walt olive at essex1.com
Also, in the movie "Corvette Summer" starring Mark Hamill of Star Wars
fame, there is a Guzzi police bike shown. -- FRED JELICH FJELICH
at worldnet.att.net
I know that one of the members of the band "Faith
No More" wears a Moto Guzzi Classics T shirt in several of their videos.
Could get more detail as to which song if I ask my son. --
Christopher Collins [so6338 at wemail.wisenergy.com]
Someone mentioned an A&E Television's
Biography
of Ann-Margret, which
contained a picture of her sitting on a Guzzi. I (Sheldon) have also
seen this one but I don't recall what kind of bike it was.
Ann-Margret
has ridden bikes for eons. There's a famous foto of her on the bike from
Easy Riders. She was also recently pictured on another Harley for some
charity event. -- Alice Sexton asexton at
atlantech.net
From Sheldon 10/21/98: Check out
Ann's official web site at http://www.ann-margret.com and especially her
bike page at http://www.ann-margret.com/hd.htm [404]
Looks like finding the photo of her on the Guzzi could turn into a
quest. If anyone comes up with it please send it to me and I will
post it here. Others are looking also, see the following message:
While watching the A&E biography on Ann-Margret, they showed a movie
poster, or promo photo, from an Italian movie she did. it was a picture
of Ann sitting on a blue Eldorado (around 1970 I think) wearing black stockings
and knee high black leather boots. I was hoping some would know where I
could find a copy of this picture or a repro of the poster.
ps. I already have the one of her riding her triumph.
East Village Motorcycle 212-674-5362 microdot at interport.net
http://www.leatherx.com
Is
Bob Vila standing next to a GUZZI
in the tool commercial. I saw the ad at 2:30 am(est). The bike
is red, and has aluminum covered gauges on the top clamp. The ad
is for the locking grip and tube cutter.
Jpolde
at aol.com I haven't seen the ad, but knowing old Bob,
he'll use the RoboGrip pliers on the Guzzi's fasteners, and someday I'll
end up owning the bike, and cursing him to hell. -- Fred Sahms
Knoxville, Tennessee motophyl at mindspring.com
Once
Upon a Crime, Sean Young and Richard Lewis hide behind two Guzzis,
one looked like a California and the other an LM, but I am not sure.
Sheldon Aubut -- biker at cwizard
An episode
of "My So Called Life" (claire
dane - syndicated on MTV) has the mom fantisizing about a college boyfriend
with motorcycle and in flashback they show a beautiful guzzi ambassador.
-- Mark Garrison garrison at rosharon.wireline.slb.com
Saw part
of an Italian movie yesterday, called "L'huomo
delle Stelle" and made in the beginning of the nineties.
Story unfolds in 1953 Sicily and what do I see very short-ly in one of
the scenes that plys on a village square? Yep a big Guzzi single.
No idea which model, don't think it was a Falcone, rather an Alce or Super
Alce, but definitely was a 500cc Guzzi one lunger. No mistaking
in that. Add it to the list I would say. -- Pastaboy
-- lieven.loots at arts.kuleuven.ac.be
A long
running ABC television program in Oz called GP (General Practitioner, as
in family doctor) featured the lead actor regularly using a Moto Guzzi
as his main means of transport. It was an ice blue Lemans MkI, in very
original condition. -- Peter Matthews -- peter
at mail.cth.com.au
The movie
was called "The Car" and
it starred James Brolin and it was made in about 1977. I saw one
on Mystery Theater 3000 awhile back that was filmed in Italy. They
had a few Moto Guzzi's in it also. It was not a very good movie
which is why it was on MST3K. -- Dave Carlson dcarlson
at landoflakes.com
The MG
general importer for Germany (MGI) had release an e-mail news flash yesterday:
The upcoming movie 'STRAIGHT
SHOOTER' w/ Dennis Hopper will feature an all and deep-black Moto Guzzi
Quota 1100 ES. It will be the bad guy's ride through wild chases and breathless
stunts. Right in time for the movie to be released (april 1, 1999),
the all-black Quota 1100 ES is supposed to be on the sales floor.
It will NOT be Dennis Hopper riding the Quota, but it won't be Pierce Brosnan
either:-)) -- Dietmar Flink -- Bonn/Germany
-- dflink at rz-online.de http://rz-home.de/~dflink
[404 ]
Alphabet
City (1984) - This is a horrible movie, The Guzzi scene
takes place in the last 10 minutes when our hero is rescued by his pal
who arrives in the apartment hallway (!) riding a California II! The two
ride off to safety together. The bike had just been introduced
when the movie was made; it'd be interesting to know how they came
to get hold of one. -- Daniel R. Kalal dankalal at southwind.net
Another movie staring a beautiful black 72 or 73 civilian Eldorado is "Teenage
Bikers". This is a XXX rated video made in the early 70's, and stars Jamie
Gillis. It is amazing what 3 people can do on an Eldorado. There
is a lot to be said for the strength of the center stand. I have
a copy of the video. Others on the list have seen it and can verify its
existence. -- Bruce
Ok, enough of the macho leading men on the Ducatis, here' one for the
Guzzisti: In Cheech and Chong's "Up
In Smoke" the stoned cop that pulls them over is in a LAPD. Gotta love
that. -- Mark Kromer -- markk at mynode
If anyone
should be interested, in an Italian movie from 1990, titled "Le
Comiche", one of the two main players drives a 250 Airone, fish tail
mufflers, with sidecar. Anyway, the guy (his name is Renato Pozzetto,
very popular in Italy) usually rides a Galletto in his real life.
-- Cheers, Lone Rider Antonino Tibaldi -- an.tibaldi at
areacom.it
Was watching
the show Friends (Thurs
8pm NBC) this evening and saw an EV. It was just a passing shot as
the guy pulled away. Red tank with the cream teardrop. They
used the same bike in an episode last year. -- Ian Adkins
-- adkins at gte.net
Another
movie with Guzzis is James Bond's "Octopussy".
Early scene has an Eldorado military escort. The convoy is buzzed by a
light aircraft and the bikes go down. I'm lucky enough to own one of those
Eldo's with the same paint job still in tact as the movie co. sold the
bikes rather than haul them back to California. -- Steven Seftel
-- socastevie at yahoo
Seems
to me I remember that there was a movie filmed in the New York area about
a motorcycle gang. They all rode chopped Guzzi's. The film was a
low budget film and they probably couldn't afford HD's. I saw it
in a theater in the late '79 or '80, '81. This is right after I got
an Eldo. That's how I can remember. Don't remember the exact year,
would have been '79, '80, '81. I thought that the movie looked stupid
with chopped Guzzi's instead of HD's. Typical biker gang movie.
I had the Shovel and the Eldo at the same time. Let know what you
think. Could have been filmed on Roosevelt lsand across from Manhattan.
Aloha!!! from the big island of Hawaii. NO SALES and NO SERVICE but
definitely an OWNER.
Tom Au -- aucycles at webtv.net
Nicholas
Cage is not only a serious auto and motorcycle collector but he is a rabid
Guzzi owner. My old mechanic still services all of Cage's bikes, including
his Guzzis -- which the shop, actually, hates to work on! They're
not a Guzzi dealer so parts are slow in arriving and they have to mark-up
over retail for a decent profit. This is why after I crashed my Yamaha
XJ750J and bought my present T3 they refused to work on it. If I
had the kind of business Cage throws their way it would be a whole different
story they promised.<s>.
So anyway, if Cage didn't own that Guzzi in "Capt.
Correlli's Mandolin" I'm sure he does now. And I doubt he
would have even allowed it in the movie, let alone have ridden it, if it
wasn't correct.
Clifford -- cjg53 at pacbell.net
Ron,
I too was looking carefully at the bike, but there weren't enough shots
to be sure. I suspect it was an Alce although it lacked the passenger handlebars
that make that model so unique. It could have been a GT17, but I couldn't
see if it had the double barrel muffler. In any case it would have
had the unique exhaust over intake 500 cc flat single motor and was correct
for the period. Nice! My reference is Columbo's book.
Peter Yronwode
Ron,
I think the bike in the film is an Alce, a 500cc single producing about
13 bhp which was the main 2 wheeled transport of the Italian army during
the Second World War.
There is a small photo on page 32 of Ian Falloon's "The Moto Guzzi
Story".
I recently watched a documentary about the real events that happened
in WW2- I haven't seen the film yet but understand that the true story
was changed to make the film have a happier ending.
Regards,
Guy
Guzziesti,
It's been a long week, this weekend I am in the process of tearing
in to my brothers '94 Cali to replace a broken shift return spring, &
Alice was busting her butt in the yard. Nothing has been able to lift the
sodden blanket from our hearts. Usually I love being in the shop
deep into a Guzzi, but all the usual little frustrations of doing a repair
job were goading me like hot pokers. Alice said she hasn't heard me cuss
like that since she's known me. We decided to go to a movie & suspend
ugly reality for a little while. Alice is a Nicholas Cage fan, so
we went to see "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". Not only was it an excellent
movie, but it had some scenes of Cage riding an Italian military motorcycle
that had a "bacon slicer" flywheel on the left side. I have no idea if
it is historically accurate, or what model Guzzi it was. Perhaps someone
with a more extensive knowledge can identify it
Ron Komoroski
"Assault
on Precinct 13" (1976). Towards the end, two motorcycle
cops pull up on Guzzi police bikes. Cylinders unmistakable, even in the
dark. That, by the way, is all of the movie that I bothered to watch, but
I was flipping channels, and there they were. More garbage from John
Carpenter. -- Carl Allison -- guzzi007
at postoffice.pacbell.net
Hi all! There sure seems to be a lot of movies with glimpse's of
Guzzi's, but my personal all time favorite is "TT Classic Magic" from Duke
video. It can be purchased online by Americans at http://tinyurl.com/jhct
(If this link doesn't work, go to http://www.duke-usa.com
and type in TT Classic Magic in the search window.) This 1996 video
feature's an interview with Bill Lomas and Umberto Todero and shows Bill
Lomas and Guiseppe Todero riding two of the V-8's around the Isle of Man
course in the vintage exhibition race! They also have other video's
for sale that shows factory racing Guzzi's from the 50's.Very good!!
-- Dave Carlson -- Minneapolis, Minnesota --
dcarlson
at landoflakes
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