MM36 - Cops & Robbers feat. Robert Franco
Added 2025-05-14 11:00:10 +0000 UTCToday Will, Hesse, and special guest Rob Franco delve deep into two hidden gem Hesse picks: Electra Glide In Blue (1973) and Point Blank (1967)!
Have you ever asked yourself, “what if the band Chicago made a motorcycle cop exploitation movie? What would that look like?”
And have you ever asked yourself, “what would it look like if Lee Marvin recruited a young John Boorman and gave him Carte Blanche to make the most insane American crime movie ever made?”
This is not my beautiful bike!
This is not my beautiful $93,000!
My God! What have I done!!!?!
Comments
One of the best eps of Movie Mindset. Point Blank was ABSOLUTELY an influence on The Master, but it was also an influence in Inherent Vice. I read in a press release that Josh Brolin's character's look was lifted directly from Lee Marvin in Point Blank.
The Real Spiro Agnew
2025-11-09 03:59:01 +0000 UTCAnybody identify the scenes in the master that were lifted? I just watched it, but I'm having trouble figuring out what Hesse was talking about.
Jake
2025-06-07 10:42:54 +0000 UTCThe script isn't very good but it's shot and acted in this dreamy '60s way that's pretty cool. Plus it's only 92 minutes long.
Tim O'
2025-05-25 15:40:18 +0000 UTCI rented Point Blank on YouTube today. Lee Marvin punches a dude in the dick at about 31:50. This movie rocks.
Tim O'
2025-05-25 15:37:24 +0000 UTCIs there an editing mistake at 1:01:20? Audio cuts out.
Christopher Scragg
2025-05-24 00:12:21 +0000 UTCHaven't listened to it yet, but I still want to thank you. For years I had search for the meaning of the line "Backseat on electric glide" in Texas Never Whispers. I hope this a break in the case.
Nacho
2025-05-19 15:26:44 +0000 UTCI saw Point Blank last night. The cinematography and color is incredible. The acting and story were not as strong. Definitely worth seeing though.
Miles_B
2025-05-19 11:18:11 +0000 UTCHate to be that guy, but Point Blank is just okay, the book it's based on (The Hunter) is much better.
Yarblockos
2025-05-18 16:54:39 +0000 UTCthat guy said how many words over that 300 minute episode? maybe 12?
etienne
2025-05-18 01:30:22 +0000 UTCI love how this isn't the first time Hesse got so excited about a movie that she forgot to introduce the guest
Mary Mallone
2025-05-17 06:14:32 +0000 UTCalso on YouTube
danny
2025-05-16 17:18:09 +0000 UTCHesse, THANK YOU! For Electra Glide in Blue it was awesome. I really read it as a satire and thought it was great
danny
2025-05-16 17:13:43 +0000 UTCAnother TUBI
Erik Weissengruber
2025-05-16 06:16:37 +0000 UTCComparing the director’s commentary to a homeless person’s stream of consciousness was so spot on. Listening to that guy talk reminded me of an alcoholic I dated. There’d be a bunch of words strung together without meaning that left me wondering if his brain cells died or never existed.
Normica
2025-05-16 05:50:42 +0000 UTCElectra Glide in Blue is on TUBI, possibly on Hebee and Tnorknork
MCL
2025-05-16 00:02:18 +0000 UTCDo Seven Beauties
Luke
2025-05-15 23:39:43 +0000 UTCFirst four are free on audible BTW
Aaron
2025-05-15 23:08:34 +0000 UTCThanks to Rob for mentioning the Richard Stark Parker book series. Just got through the first two already. Good stuff.
Aaron
2025-05-15 23:07:10 +0000 UTCHis wikipedia article says that he played a Native American in at least 23 movies, though
T
2025-05-15 21:11:15 +0000 UTCMovie mindset bingo squares: “dreamlike quality”, “skeleton key that unlocks the film”, “Hesse says ‘Fa**ot’, what else…
Tyler Hanel
2025-05-15 17:35:05 +0000 UTCHesse apologizing for a long first feature review like we wouldn't enjoy 3-4 hour episodes.
ERIC
2025-05-15 10:58:45 +0000 UTChearing the walker returning from the dead sequence described in its every detail made me so happy. Loved how Lee Marvin's biographical details were used to support the film's new wave noir supernatural fantastique statement. The film is both so serious and so funny and the behind the scenes stories make it seem like this film was itself the product of mysterious unstoppable spirits
Leon
2025-05-15 07:38:24 +0000 UTCHesse’s laugh at around 1:28:30 around the Boorman book, priceless!!!
Courtney
2025-05-15 05:18:27 +0000 UTCThat's basically what my experience is college was
Tim O'
2025-05-15 02:37:18 +0000 UTCso much John Boorman talk and no mention of Zardoz smh
Zane Merritt
2025-05-15 02:20:33 +0000 UTCalso james b sikking was a major character in parts!
JD
2025-05-15 02:15:17 +0000 UTCwow elctraglide in blue arizona masterpiece
Joe
2025-05-15 00:56:15 +0000 UTCHoly s***, I never thought I would hear another human being comment on Electraglide in Blue. I actually burst out it in a silly, excited gasp.
tysonw81
2025-05-15 00:06:06 +0000 UTClearned that term in Eastwood's El Camino
SHEEBCORE
2025-05-14 22:56:51 +0000 UTCif you can believe it this is my 2nd favorite Lee Marvin story relating to his Mifune worship: https://youtu.be/jzYIcJijIt4?si=1LP43A6S8WZQUOTR
Rohmer Simpson
2025-05-14 22:53:17 +0000 UTCThought this said Cops and Robbersons. Was kinda excited, like Captain Ron excited.
Andrew
2025-05-14 22:49:09 +0000 UTCMy college roommate was a cop like 15+ years ago and we would always play with his riot gear, breathalyzer each other, wear his uniform with no pants like a porky pig PD He’d also whack the absolute shit out of the side of our thighs with his baton, stun locking your leg lol. He wouldn’t use those taser dart things, but did use the base to shock us while we peed
Cullen S
2025-05-14 22:44:59 +0000 UTCThere is most definitely some racism in "zip," and also some nauseating horror – it was short for "zipperhead," which is what US troops called dead Vietnamese civilians who'd been run over by tanks and crushed into the zipper-like pattern of the tank treads
Michael S. Judge
2025-05-14 22:29:12 +0000 UTCAnother great Angie Dickinson appearance is in Jacques Deray's 'The Outside Man' with Scheider, Tritignant, and Ann Margeret. An epic LA Crime film I think should be cannonized. Joe Morton sings the damn theme song.
JD
2025-05-14 22:19:42 +0000 UTChttps://youtu.be/Metv95k5VrY?si=FdxP5niyNITD58Cv
Michael Polacheck
2025-05-14 21:30:06 +0000 UTCNice Hill Street Blues reference from Hesse. Love that show, have you binged it?
JD
2025-05-14 21:29:32 +0000 UTCJames William Guercio also produced a PSA spot called "Shoes for Industry" on the Firesign Theatre album "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me The Pliers".
Michael Polacheck
2025-05-14 21:26:23 +0000 UTCWith the Easy Rider reference I’m reminded that yall should do a Dennis Hopper direction double feature with Easy Rider and Out of the Blue
steven bassett
2025-05-14 20:45:38 +0000 UTCthis trailer for Electra Glide in Blue rips so hard https://youtu.be/5niHVBPMep4?si=FV1BD1se0-o-r9G4
Jabroni Ludd
2025-05-14 20:21:39 +0000 UTCLost it at “Chrome Tranny” lmao
CJ
2025-05-14 19:17:00 +0000 UTC21:12 this mf said ChewAnon
Adam B
2025-05-14 15:51:01 +0000 UTCTwo of my favs!
Devin Conner
2025-05-14 15:26:58 +0000 UTC“Adventures of a suburban boor”
Ctrane
2025-05-14 14:36:40 +0000 UTCRe: the “Indian motorcycle cop” line confusion. He’s not Native American, Indian is an iconic motorcycle brand from the early 20th century
Sam
2025-05-14 14:33:43 +0000 UTCIt’s very funny when Hesse makes fun of Europeans silly voices
Nolan
2025-05-14 13:59:36 +0000 UTCCharlie potatoes, Charlie fucking potatoes.
Suzie
2025-05-14 13:51:47 +0000 UTCAhh yes Robert Franco the last uncancelled Franco brother
Sam Bondurant
2025-05-14 13:49:33 +0000 UTCReally missed a trick not calling this "Cops and Roberts"
Max
2025-05-14 13:27:00 +0000 UTCHesse needs to be my chrome tranny. It’s all I want.
Jim McKenna
2025-05-14 12:44:55 +0000 UTCClouddead sampled Electra Glide In Blue, I think
Dzmien Nzimad
2025-05-14 12:43:53 +0000 UTCACAB
altpub
2025-05-14 12:38:38 +0000 UTCIf you want watch a couple of hard drinking individuals go through some war stuff, watch Hell in the Pacific with Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. Also directed by Boorman.
Zach H.
2025-05-14 12:34:59 +0000 UTCActually a more coherent double feature
Here, Try This
2025-05-14 12:17:05 +0000 UTCI like to think Harve was the arresting officer in Miranda v Arizona
Here, Try This
2025-05-14 11:57:15 +0000 UTCbountiful slop!
Shane-A112
2025-05-14 11:53:16 +0000 UTCSeason 3 list; https://boxd.it/FQdWG
Adam B
2025-05-14 11:25:40 +0000 UTCSpooky season 1 & 2 list; https://boxd.it/p6Bhw
Adam B
2025-05-14 11:25:08 +0000 UTCSeason 2 list; https://boxd.it/tOjRg
Adam B
2025-05-14 11:24:27 +0000 UTCSeason 1 list; https://boxd.it/pfYLM
Adam B
2025-05-14 11:24:00 +0000 UTCThe last shot of Electra Glide in Blue... wow.
James Majure
2025-05-14 11:13:50 +0000 UTCWhoops… I read point blank as point break
Thomas
2025-05-14 11:06:28 +0000 UTC
