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70s movie posters: ‘Electra Glide in Blue’

Here’s the latest in our ongoing series about 1970s movie posters.

If you remember, I started throwing a few classic 1970s movie posters out there after the inspiration of the 1970s-style poster for “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

I maintain that some of the best movie posters of all time were produced to help market 1970s movies, including drive-in movies.

I still vividly remember seeing “Electra Glide in Blue” at a drive-in movie theater in 1973 with one of my older brothers.

Robert Blake was yet to achieve fame and notoriety as the star of TV’s “Baretta” – not to mention his late-in-life suspicion of murdering his significant other.

Here, Blake – small of stature but always a cocky bastard – plays a motorcycle cop drawn into a murder mystery.

All the early 70s movie touchstones are here, including rock music, “fuzz” vs “hippies,” and a twist ending.

It’s worth a look, and so is the poster.

1970s poster flashback: ‘Coffy’

A while back I was inspired to begin this recurring look at the poster art of 1970s movies after seeing the throwback-style poster for “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

Movies don’t get any groovier than “Coffy,” the 1973 blaxploitation flick starring Pam Grier in the title role. And the poster does justice to the movie’s storyline.

After her younger sister is hooked on drugs, Coffy, a nurse, sets out to kill as many drug dealers as possible.

It’s a pretty straightforward plot.

If you’ve never looked at it, check out the oddly-written Wikipedia page for the movie, complete with plot recap.

“Coffy uses her sexuality to seduce her would-be killers,” indeed.

And good lord, what an impression Grier made on a lot of us.

See what I mean?

Cool ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ posters

I’ve had a love affair with movie posters my whole life. It probably began when I was just a kid and going to movies and continued into the 1970s and 1980s when I bought a lot of posters (one-sheets mostly) and lucked into even m0re when a local movie theater was closing.

I got rid of a lot of my posters but still have some. Maybe when the weather finally warms up I’ll crack open the plastic containers in my garage and pull some posters out to share with you.

In the meantime, I love a good modern-day poster.

I was really taken with the recent poster for “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” and thought you might be too:

Cool stuff.

But today I saw artist Paolo Rivera’s take on the movie’s poster and loooooved it.

As you can see, Rivera perfectly captures the 1970s action/thriller feel for the movie that the sequel’s makers have said they intended.

What a great piece of art. If you want to see more, check out his blog here.