Hey man I grew up in the fifties, born in 42, saw the rise of it all, Bill Haley, Elvis, I remember an enterprising movie theatre owner called Bell who owned the Palace, a run down flea pit in Leyland, Lancashire, he ordered, direct from London, Rock around the clock, man he made a fortune, I remember being so excited by Haley's music I actually whooped in the cinema, people didn't do that in fifties Britain but that was the start of the teenage revolution and the hares still running.
It makes me want to cry that people can't just go cruising and hitch hike and be friends with everything. This life seems so simple and fun and way more friendly. Stupid technology!
Watching this is movie is like going to my roots. I own a 1957 Nomad and a 1958 and 1959 Impala, can name just about every song from the 50s and have a passion for the 50s and 60s. It all started with this movie when I watched it when I was 10!
This show is somewhat exaggerated in that it's sort of what 10 guys would experience in 10 years of cruising. But I love it nevertheless. In 1964 I was fortunate enough to cruise in a 58 Thunderbird and although I never encountered Suzanne Somers it was still a lot of fun.
@RideMyBMW Yes, I know it seems vacuous, but I've had a pretty good career, been to the city (London, Rome, Paris, Melbourne, New Orleans, L.A., San Francisco, Ottawa, Honolulu, Munich, etc.) and seen the elephant; did a few things that seemed important at the time. But late at night in reflection I can still hear the rumble of twin Hollies off a 327 or the rattle of solid lifters from a 409 and ... remember. All the best.
@RideMyBMW Odd, I was just emailing a friend when your message came in. It was just like growing up in any age with a lot of emphasis on getting laid and terrified at the prospect. Cars were very important, trying to look tough (the Pharoes?) mandatory but without the many and preferable things that young people have to do to entertain themselves today. Much of what is portrayed in American Graffiti is attractive because of nostalgia, not because it was that much fun. Carpe Diem. All the best.
I HAD A 32 FORD WITH 409 CHEVY ENGINE DUAL HOLLY CARBS PRIMER GRAY, BUT I WAS CLOSE TO PAINTING IT PISS YELLOW, MUNCIE 4 SPEED WITH RUMBLE SEAT, MY POINT THIS IS MY LIFE, AS IT WAS BACK THEN, LOST MOST OF MY FRIENDS TO THE WAR, THOSE THAT DID COME BACK DIED FROM AGENT ORANGE OR SUICIDE, ONE OF SIX THAT LIVE THRU THE WAR
@peterpotmas A Deuce with a 409 and twin Hollys must have gone like stink. Good you kept the rumble seat. About your friends and the war I will say nothing because that belongs only to the people who were there.
sigh im going to miss mafia 2 but it pissed me off for the last time and i sold it i had the one hotrod painted "piss yellow" drove around like a badass
@HelloIAmGreen I believe that is "Runaway" by Del Shannon. I haven't checked but I think it must be here on Youtube someplace. Try it and see, but I do believe it is the Del Shannon hit.
What year were the scenes of this movie made to take place in? Looks like the late 50s-early 60s era. I believe that this movie, along with the TV show "Happy Days" is what brought about the great revival of the interest in the 1950s and 50s music. When this movie was made in 1973, I was in 2nd grade. From that time on, I have always loved the sound of the 1950s & early 60s rock and roll. That was when rock and roll was MUSIC!
I graduated in 1962 Southern California, the year this movie was supposed to take place and George Lucas nailed it down to the last letterman's sweater and bubble hair style and cars. This was pure West Coast and done so well .
I had a boyfriend who would pick me up at school in his '59 candy apple red Impala which was on a rake (lowered in front). After a year, it oxidized and looked like hell.
Lucas said A.G. was representing the end of the "50s" and the start of the 60s. Notice how the first song is Rock around the clock and the end credits are the Beach Boys. My dad (class of 58, and mom 61) both said they had the same feelings watching this movie. Just think how the culture changed in the U.S. from 62 to 72. Clothes, cars, music etc. The guys going of to school at the end of the film represent the 50s fading away. A time that wont be forgoten in America. Great movie, thanx George!
I wish movies were as good as this still. They are either over energized with computer graphics or just plain dumb in order to pander to artsy fartsy critics. And the industry wonders why movie ticket sales have plummeted in the last decade.
This, people, is why George Lucas is a bona fide genius...and with barely 2 movies (at the time) under his belt managed to earned a place as one of America´s all time greatest movie directors.
LOVE this film!!! the soundtrack mixing is amazing,,Lucas recorded it to sound like every car had the radio on...sounds amazing on a good surround system!!
I always thought the movie was about spray paint vandalism. I was misinformed. Still a cool flick from the early 70’s too bad he made Star Wars into a film I now hare because of all the CGI and fucking around with its original Dolby stereo film mix.
I was really impressed with this movie after seeing it in 2001. My friend brought it (VHS) over and said that I have to watch this movie I said "Fine". Never regretted that choice because I was let down by a few recent flicks earlier that year. This motion picture Rocks.
It was nominated for Best Picture of the Year at the Oscars in '74, and still holds up well today. What a great and fun movie. I saw it about 7 or 8 times when it first came out in 1973.
The film is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in the early 1960s told in a series of vignettes, featuring a group of teenagers and their adventures in a single night in late August 1962.
@ksb78 You are absolutely right- it was the "Love American Style" episode called "Love and the Happy Day" - but I can't help wondering if this movie didn't also have anything to do with the creation of the show-
@luigicamp69 Unless I'm mistaken, the setting for Happy Days took place around early 1955 or 1956, since one of their earlier episodes dealt with the Eisenhower-Stevenson election - I am only guessing that because of the music they played in some of the episodes (Johnnie Ray, Elvis, The Chords, etc)
In the early seventies, before going into the army, my friend Dave and I drove out to watertown WI, we drove downtown (small town) on a saturday night and thought we were reliving this film..it was so cool.
@Jonathonantram they were made from 1958 to 1960 - I dont know why they ever caught on, they looked no different than any other dinosaur out there on the road at that time-
@christheone8773 I read somewhere that, the reason why the Edsel never caught on was because the front grille looked like a toilet seat!!
Ha ha! If the grill looked like a toilet seat the rest of the car was the septic tank! Actually, it had a lot of doo dads and tacky things, too much chrome, and the looks that only Henry Ford's son Edsel could like. You either loved them or hated them. I was a Chevy fan at the time so Edsels were something I made fun of. So...where were you in '62?
@kimmer6 LOL - to answer your question, where was I in '62 - I was still a gleam in my parents' eye, because I didn't make my debut on this world till 1964-
@christheone8773 You got to experiance the 60's and 70's:(.....I hate being a teen at this time.To me,things started getting crappy in the 2000's.And it just keeps getting worse and worse.
@kimmer6 Even though I was born in the 90s, and I perfer Chevy and Mopars I've I found an Edsel for cheap I would take it over any car out there today. I might be able to swap a 383 or a 351 into it. I would perfer Tri-Five Chevy, or a 55 Dodge.
read the script book in 73' and when the movie was released in that year, my older brother Gus and I knew every word utterded before the rest of the theatre crowd.kind of a weird thing but secret nerdy cool fun.
read the script book in 73' and when the movie was released in that year, my older brother Gus and I knew every word utterded before the rest of the theatre crowd.kind of a weird thing but secret nerdy cool fun.
@dossitodossote i ENVY YOU SO MUCH! Ha,...ha...ha, I cant imagine what it must of been like getting in your car, turning on the radio,....AND THERE IS WOLFMAN....!! WOW!!!! That had to be pure magic!! Ya know, it must be like a dream or a vision just thinking back on those days!! It must hurt like hell to see how we have lost all of that! God bless you my friend!! I love those days so much too!!
@crazy93ist I was, and it was awesome. Reminded me of cruisin Sunset and Hollywood Blvd in the early to mid 60's. I graduated high school in 1965. Absolutely awesome muscle cars and looking at them and the girls in them and those strollng on the streets (not hooking). What a fabulous movie.
This is my dad's era, god bless him. It took my mom 25 years to get him to stop rolling his cigarettes up in his t-shirt sleeve, and I know he still has a tube of Brylcreem hidden somewhere in the house....
@MPG350 Yes,...me to friend!! Fact is, I was just sitting here on the couch talking to my mom about those days!! What a gorgeous generation!! I LOVE the music!! So good and emotional!!
I'm a 63 year old 'boomer who could've written the script for this movie because we lived it in central Texas--even listened to Wolfman from Mexico! I HAVE to watch this movie at least once a year because every character reminds me of a friend in high school...Rock On!
Ive long wanted to ask someone, is this film an authentic representation of what life was like living in the US for young people at the time? did you really get young kids driving around in big cars? If so life then must have been amazing.
@dodiho1965 wow. I envy that. being 18, i find it amazing that even though i never lived through this period, i like each character so much. As for me, none of my rugby mates resemble any of them in the slightest. All in all i just plain love this movie! (i wish i could live this movie reallllllly badly!)
@ThinLizzy86 Same here:(...I hate being a teen because no oe is like this.Alot of teens are either posers,all about fashion,dramatic,or full of themselves.I wish I lived back in this time.
I watched part of this movie being filmed, ate at Mel's weekly as a treat, and my father and I dragged on 4th street. If I remember correctly, the old courthouse was in the movie. The courthouse burned down shortly thereafter.
Not only does the movie kick ass but it is walking down memory lane to me.
This film and music are especially important to me because of where I was in the summer of l962--doing the same thing these kids were and waiting to start college in the fall.
George Lucas is a fu&%in genius!!! First saw this in `78 on TV. I was 6 and Star Wars had just come out and ABC was latching on to the George Lucas craze. I wanted to be John Milner so bad,I would wrap a pack of Crayons under my white T-shirt sleeve like a pack of Camels and ride my bike around my neighborhood lookin for trouble. XD!!!
I recently went to San Fran and at at Mel's drive-in. It was the one near the Golden gateway Holiday inn. I'm not sure if that is where American Graffiti was shot, but there was a lot of posters from the movie in the restaurant. I have always been a big fan of the movie and was excited to be at Mel's.
Culturally, symbolically, this is more the fifties, much the same way as the nineties pretty much ended on 2001-9-11. Poodle-skirts and dragging main, Buddy Holly and drive-ins all peg the epoch.
my dad told my Harrison Ford is in this
27jengirl 1 month ago
It was pretty cool, of course you do not realize it at the time
deckard43 2 months ago
hey richarddreyfussfan:
put
yt:stretch=16:9
in the video's tags so that it will display in the correct widescreen format! Because right now it looks squished.
CandyHam 2 months ago
Hey man I grew up in the fifties, born in 42, saw the rise of it all, Bill Haley, Elvis, I remember an enterprising movie theatre owner called Bell who owned the Palace, a run down flea pit in Leyland, Lancashire, he ordered, direct from London, Rock around the clock, man he made a fortune, I remember being so excited by Haley's music I actually whooped in the cinema, people didn't do that in fifties Britain but that was the start of the teenage revolution and the hares still running.
thecubanism 3 months ago
if wish i lived in 1950's america but i have to live in 2011 england!
mattyhitch1980 3 months ago 2
@mattyhitch1980
I'll trade your 2011 England for my 2011 America!
donniedarkodevotte 2 months ago
@donniedarkodevotte no probs :]
mattyhitch1980 2 months ago
gotta love those cars. the 50's. good detroit cars.
CRX1100 3 months ago
"Do you want to end up like John? You can't stay 17 forever". That is
a great line and really sums up what the movie is all about.
JSTONE9352 4 months ago 2
It makes me want to cry that people can't just go cruising and hitch hike and be friends with everything. This life seems so simple and fun and way more friendly. Stupid technology!
underwearmonster 5 months ago
I was a senior in 1962 and I must tell you it was a great time, especially for cars and girls
deckard43 6 months ago 8
@deckard43 I wanna live in that generation lol :)
busyguy1994 2 months ago
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this movie is awesome
Gabrielle1876 6 months ago
I take it Toads not going to college
cromerbeach 6 months ago
Watching this is movie is like going to my roots. I own a 1957 Nomad and a 1958 and 1959 Impala, can name just about every song from the 50s and have a passion for the 50s and 60s. It all started with this movie when I watched it when I was 10!
sirleucelot 7 months ago
whats the song playing at 3:14
gen45678910 7 months ago
@gen45678910 I believe it's the radio station's introduction to the DJ Wolfman Jack. Just like they do for today's DJs.
sirleucelot 7 months ago
Check out my 2007 interview with Bo Hopkins and Candy Clark at SEMA its here on you tube
k9kohl 8 months ago
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Greatest movie of all time in my opinion
k9kohl 8 months ago
Everything looks all smushed :(
vexviper 8 months ago
i love it when toad crashed the vespa...he never drove one before...he really was out of control and they left it in the movie...lol
johncartelli 8 months ago
This show is somewhat exaggerated in that it's sort of what 10 guys would experience in 10 years of cruising. But I love it nevertheless. In 1964 I was fortunate enough to cruise in a 58 Thunderbird and although I never encountered Suzanne Somers it was still a lot of fun.
deriter64 9 months ago
"it's sort of what 10 guys would experience in 10 years of cruising" - deriter64
LOL! Thats hilarious! Guess Lucas laid down 10 years worth of mindless cruising in his screenplay.
RideMyBMW 8 months ago
@RideMyBMW Yes, I know it seems vacuous, but I've had a pretty good career, been to the city (London, Rome, Paris, Melbourne, New Orleans, L.A., San Francisco, Ottawa, Honolulu, Munich, etc.) and seen the elephant; did a few things that seemed important at the time. But late at night in reflection I can still hear the rumble of twin Hollies off a 327 or the rattle of solid lifters from a 409 and ... remember. All the best.
deriter64 8 months ago
@deriter64 dude thats awesome! BTW, what was it like growin´ up in the early 60s?
RideMyBMW 8 months ago
@RideMyBMW Odd, I was just emailing a friend when your message came in. It was just like growing up in any age with a lot of emphasis on getting laid and terrified at the prospect. Cars were very important, trying to look tough (the Pharoes?) mandatory but without the many and preferable things that young people have to do to entertain themselves today. Much of what is portrayed in American Graffiti is attractive because of nostalgia, not because it was that much fun. Carpe Diem. All the best.
deriter64 8 months ago
I HAD A 32 FORD WITH 409 CHEVY ENGINE DUAL HOLLY CARBS PRIMER GRAY, BUT I WAS CLOSE TO PAINTING IT PISS YELLOW, MUNCIE 4 SPEED WITH RUMBLE SEAT, MY POINT THIS IS MY LIFE, AS IT WAS BACK THEN, LOST MOST OF MY FRIENDS TO THE WAR, THOSE THAT DID COME BACK DIED FROM AGENT ORANGE OR SUICIDE, ONE OF SIX THAT LIVE THRU THE WAR
peterpotmas 9 months ago
@peterpotmas A Deuce with a 409 and twin Hollys must have gone like stink. Good you kept the rumble seat. About your friends and the war I will say nothing because that belongs only to the people who were there.
deriter64 8 months ago
i live in modesto and go to Thomas Downey High School which george Lucus attended. and the city itself has changed.
chuckie0140 9 months ago
richie!
sailorgirl424 9 months ago
I like John Milner's 1932 Deuce Coupe Hot Rod!
DannyBoyMRPG 9 months ago
what car did darrel have????
50sChevyKING 9 months ago
@50sChevyKING who's darrel? ohhh your guese..... good as mine went all nerdy spit'll on me lol superflex moonbird? dunno
gunny426plymouth 9 months ago
sigh im going to miss mafia 2 but it pissed me off for the last time and i sold it i had the one hotrod painted "piss yellow" drove around like a badass
gunny426plymouth 9 months ago
wazupppp
crazymankill1 9 months ago
lol i always thought this was written by ron
TheNolie 9 months ago
My Dad took me and my sister to see this when it first came out! I've loved it ever since!
barbarasprague 9 months ago
Wheres the scene when Steve tells Laurie they should date other people?(That's
why Laurie wont talk to Curt when he comes over to the car).
liduck52 10 months ago
I love Ron Howard in this movie. He was adorable :)
girlfromhell101 10 months ago
My all time favorite movie.
liduck52 10 months ago
whats that song that starts at 7:44 ? it sounds like Dion but Im not sure. Does anyone know?
HelloIAmGreen 10 months ago
@HelloIAmGreen I believe that is "Runaway" by Del Shannon. I haven't checked but I think it must be here on Youtube someplace. Try it and see, but I do believe it is the Del Shannon hit.
charingmartin 9 months ago
@charingmartin thank you! :)
HelloIAmGreen 9 months ago
@HelloIAmGreen runaway del shannon
50sChevyKING 9 months ago
What year were the scenes of this movie made to take place in? Looks like the late 50s-early 60s era. I believe that this movie, along with the TV show "Happy Days" is what brought about the great revival of the interest in the 1950s and 50s music. When this movie was made in 1973, I was in 2nd grade. From that time on, I have always loved the sound of the 1950s & early 60s rock and roll. That was when rock and roll was MUSIC!
tempetiger 10 months ago
@tempetiger Movie is set in 1962.
liduck52 10 months ago
Why did you hack the movie up and edit out all the good parts?
ChainCollector 10 months ago
My 11-year old daughter was intrigued by the roller skates. 'Why don't they do that now?'
yankeeshogun 10 months ago
Woah great stuff here daddio!
GreasyRockabilly 11 months ago
I graduated in 1962 Southern California, the year this movie was supposed to take place and George Lucas nailed it down to the last letterman's sweater and bubble hair style and cars. This was pure West Coast and done so well .
I had a boyfriend who would pick me up at school in his '59 candy apple red Impala which was on a rake (lowered in front). After a year, it oxidized and looked like hell.
SuzanneDevlin44 11 months ago
"You just can't stay 17 forever" Shit..........I would pay a lot of money just to be 17 again. Just for a day.
Caboose56 11 months ago
a long time ago in a galaxy, far far away, george lucas made awesome movies
roofrack101 11 months ago
So, all this time, George Lucas was actually able to write dialogue and direct movies with a minimum of artistic sense?
sugardaddy815 1 year ago
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sugardaddy815 1 year ago
Lucas said A.G. was representing the end of the "50s" and the start of the 60s. Notice how the first song is Rock around the clock and the end credits are the Beach Boys. My dad (class of 58, and mom 61) both said they had the same feelings watching this movie. Just think how the culture changed in the U.S. from 62 to 72. Clothes, cars, music etc. The guys going of to school at the end of the film represent the 50s fading away. A time that wont be forgoten in America. Great movie, thanx George!
kadennis66 1 year ago
For what i would give to be a teen in this time line.
BlueVenemProductions 1 year ago
@BlueVenemProductions i hear ya on that
crimsonbehemoth 1 year ago
"The best American movie ever made" - Steven Spielberg
I´ll drink (my Cherry Coke) to that!
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
I raced George for pink tickets { ownership papers } for cars , on set ,Unlike the movie
Milner's was not as quick as Harrison's .
Great Film , The best of the Genre
boozebilly 1 year ago
I wish movies were as good as this still. They are either over energized with computer graphics or just plain dumb in order to pander to artsy fartsy critics. And the industry wonders why movie ticket sales have plummeted in the last decade.
MissFreeedomFighter 1 year ago
Great memories racing for pinks
with George .
Black beats yellow evey time ! You know it.
Happy Days.
boozebilly 1 year ago
what song name 5:00?
S1L3NT4774CK 1 year ago
@S1L3NT4774CK
Its Called GEE by The Crows.
PRECIOUSxNERD13 1 year ago
does anyone else find Richard Dreyfuss to be extremely cute? XD
TheQuinnBe 1 year ago
@TheQuinnBe OMG he looks so baby-faced in comparison to Jaws and that movie only came 2 years after this one.
lamc93 8 months ago
This, people, is why George Lucas is a bona fide genius...and with barely 2 movies (at the time) under his belt managed to earned a place as one of America´s all time greatest movie directors.
RideMyBMW 1 year ago
LOVE this film!!! the soundtrack mixing is amazing,,Lucas recorded it to sound like every car had the radio on...sounds amazing on a good surround system!!
Ern1940 1 year ago
I always thought the movie was about spray paint vandalism. I was misinformed. Still a cool flick from the early 70’s too bad he made Star Wars into a film I now hare because of all the CGI and fucking around with its original Dolby stereo film mix.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
great movie
gen45678910 1 year ago
I was really impressed with this movie after seeing it in 2001. My friend brought it (VHS) over and said that I have to watch this movie I said "Fine". Never regretted that choice because I was let down by a few recent flicks earlier that year. This motion picture Rocks.
TheDigitalslayer 1 year ago
This movie is bitchin'. "Fight for justice!"
TheMightydingo 1 year ago
It was nominated for Best Picture of the Year at the Oscars in '74, and still holds up well today. What a great and fun movie. I saw it about 7 or 8 times when it first came out in 1973.
Jim
Class of '73
keca1430 1 year ago
Wonderful. Memorie!
The film is a nostalgic portrait of teenage life in the early 1960s told in a series of vignettes, featuring a group of teenagers and their adventures in a single night in late August 1962.
Thanks.
IngridHexerl 1 year ago 8
Sorry mom and dad...you guys have GREAT grandkids now!!!
aftershock71 1 year ago
@aftershock71 before anyone rags on me....I too (a gen xer) could become a grandmother too. I have a kid in college.
aftershock71 1 year ago
THIS IS THE movie that started the sitcom, "Happy Days", which premiered from January of 1974 to September of 1984-
christheone8773 1 year ago
@christheone8773 I thought the show "Love American style" started 'Happy Days'.
ksb78 1 year ago
@ksb78 You are absolutely right- it was the "Love American Style" episode called "Love and the Happy Day" - but I can't help wondering if this movie didn't also have anything to do with the creation of the show-
christheone8773 1 year ago
@christheone8773 You're right. They both did. The same actors and the song. Either way, this movie is awesome and inspired a lot of films since then.
ksb78 1 year ago
@christheone8773 Wrong, Happy Days and American Graffiti had nothing in common except Ron Howard. One took place in the 50s, the other in the 60s.
luigicamp69 1 year ago
@luigicamp69 Unless I'm mistaken, the setting for Happy Days took place around early 1955 or 1956, since one of their earlier episodes dealt with the Eisenhower-Stevenson election - I am only guessing that because of the music they played in some of the episodes (Johnnie Ray, Elvis, The Chords, etc)
christheone8773 1 year ago
Also, you are right, the setting for Happy Days was in the mid 50s, and the setting for American Graffiti was their graduation night in 1962-
christheone8773 1 year ago
Harrison ford would have been told old to have been a teenager even when the film was set... he was born in 1942
26highstreet 1 year ago
@26highstreet
He could have been 19 in June of 1962
sarahshevett 1 year ago
This movie is so badass
Illousion1 1 year ago
One of my fav all time movies!
noah1970 1 year ago 2
Charlie Martin Smith is a cutie! ha ha ha ha ha ha ! weeee!!!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
ya!!!! it is and I think Ron Howard is a total hottie,,Iam a girl by the way!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
In the early seventies, before going into the army, my friend Dave and I drove out to watertown WI, we drove downtown (small town) on a saturday night and thought we were reliving this film..it was so cool.
karatekoop 1 year ago
YEA. LUV THIS MOVIE. IM FROM MODESTO SO GOTTA GO CRUIZIN DOWN J ST AND MCHENRY AVE
XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX 1 year ago
@XXXXLOWRIDERXXXX yeah mchenry fucking sucks to drive in. my buddy lives on it, fucking shit's like twenty minutes just to get to wallmart lol.
AnarchistCommunity 1 year ago
i think every generation wants to get out of their turkey town!
timholsonback 1 year ago
"Do you want to end up like John? You just can't stay 17 forever".
A great line that sums up the movie perfectly.
JSTONE9352 1 year ago
A Edsel best car ever made
Jonathonantram 1 year ago
@Jonathonantram they were made from 1958 to 1960 - I dont know why they ever caught on, they looked no different than any other dinosaur out there on the road at that time-
christheone8773 1 year ago
@Jonathonantram I read somewhere that, the reason why the Edsel never caught on was because the front grille looked like a toilet seat!!
christheone8773 1 year ago
@christheone8773 I read somewhere that, the reason why the Edsel never caught on was because the front grille looked like a toilet seat!!
Ha ha! If the grill looked like a toilet seat the rest of the car was the septic tank! Actually, it had a lot of doo dads and tacky things, too much chrome, and the looks that only Henry Ford's son Edsel could like. You either loved them or hated them. I was a Chevy fan at the time so Edsels were something I made fun of. So...where were you in '62?
kimmer6 1 year ago
@kimmer6 LOL - to answer your question, where was I in '62 - I was still a gleam in my parents' eye, because I didn't make my debut on this world till 1964-
christheone8773 1 year ago
@christheone8773 You got to experiance the 60's and 70's:(.....I hate being a teen at this time.To me,things started getting crappy in the 2000's.And it just keeps getting worse and worse.
kaylawayla23 11 months ago
@kimmer6 Even though I was born in the 90s, and I perfer Chevy and Mopars I've I found an Edsel for cheap I would take it over any car out there today. I might be able to swap a 383 or a 351 into it. I would perfer Tri-Five Chevy, or a 55 Dodge.
skatepunkzero 1 year ago
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read the script book in 73' and when the movie was released in that year, my older brother Gus and I knew every word utterded before the rest of the theatre crowd.kind of a weird thing but secret nerdy cool fun.
leftfootlouie 1 year ago
read the script book in 73' and when the movie was released in that year, my older brother Gus and I knew every word utterded before the rest of the theatre crowd.kind of a weird thing but secret nerdy cool fun.
leftfootlouie 1 year ago
we met lemat at a car show. Despite his frail state he signed autographs all day!
scottmanduzy 1 year ago
なつかしい・・・・
broocpoo 1 year ago
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what would the song on this video be at 3:14
gen456789 1 year ago
jus saw this movie on 'retrolove movies' really enjoyed it =D
mishy121 1 year ago
I am of that generation, i used to hear KOMA (radio) in Oklahoma, : Wolfman Jack! I am so lucky.. and old!.. :-D
dossitodossote 1 year ago
@dossitodossote i ENVY YOU SO MUCH! Ha,...ha...ha, I cant imagine what it must of been like getting in your car, turning on the radio,....AND THERE IS WOLFMAN....!! WOW!!!! That had to be pure magic!! Ya know, it must be like a dream or a vision just thinking back on those days!! It must hurt like hell to see how we have lost all of that! God bless you my friend!! I love those days so much too!!
44skins 1 year ago
i wish i was in that generation.
crazy93ist 1 year ago 12
And then you get sent to Nam.
dongawoy 9 months ago
@crazy93ist I just wish my generation at least liked good music, quality cars, cruising, and drag racing.
divebomber101 8 months ago
@crazy93ist I was, and it was awesome. Reminded me of cruisin Sunset and Hollywood Blvd in the early to mid 60's. I graduated high school in 1965. Absolutely awesome muscle cars and looking at them and the girls in them and those strollng on the streets (not hooking). What a fabulous movie.
fbenenati 8 months ago
what would the song on this video be at 3:14
gen456789 1 year ago
@gen456789
That would be 16 Candles by The Crests (Lead singer Johnny Maestro passed away on Wednesday this week, RIP Johnny)
doowopken 1 year ago
This is my dad's era, god bless him. It took my mom 25 years to get him to stop rolling his cigarettes up in his t-shirt sleeve, and I know he still has a tube of Brylcreem hidden somewhere in the house....
rj121974 1 year ago
As a 31 year old I wish this is when I grew up
MPG350 1 year ago 2
@MPG350 Yes,...me to friend!! Fact is, I was just sitting here on the couch talking to my mom about those days!! What a gorgeous generation!! I LOVE the music!! So good and emotional!!
44skins 1 year ago
as a 12 year old im deeply jealos of your generation
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wwwGraffitiKINGScoUK 1 year ago
The371554 ... I hear you dude. Gonna make a movie that will deal with the black experience musically from 1948-2012.
Wish me luck.
GReYSTOKE2012 1 year ago
what a superb movie.
I watched this in 1980 with a group of mates and all of us were uber impressed.
then someone read the blurb on the vhs cover: 'set in 1962'. and we all looked at each other - we were all born in that year!
up till then we all thought older people didn't have fun when they were younger!
respect from the UK - great movie.
torontoboy45 1 year ago
I never saw before!
Zitacity 1 year ago
I want to live in the 1950s too
DorisDayFanatic 2 years ago 3
this is 1962
whatwouldusaydmb4 2 years ago
@whatwouldusaydmb4
Well...people kept the 1950's feel until 1963 when Kennedy died.
I also see where "Happy Days" got their influence.
PS-I'd like to make a film called "Moondog Millionaire" which is a cross between "Slumdog Millionaire" and "American Graffiti".
Yourmomisnthere 1 year ago
@Yourmomisnthere YES,..ABSOLUTELY!! I always said that 60-63 or 64 were the same as the 50's!!
44skins 1 year ago
I'm a 63 year old 'boomer who could've written the script for this movie because we lived it in central Texas--even listened to Wolfman from Mexico! I HAVE to watch this movie at least once a year because every character reminds me of a friend in high school...Rock On!
dodiho1965 2 years ago 48
@dodiho1965 As a 23 year old, I must admit I'm deeply jealous of you're generation sir.
JoeyJoJo1185 1 year ago
dodiho1965
Ive long wanted to ask someone, is this film an authentic representation of what life was like living in the US for young people at the time? did you really get young kids driving around in big cars? If so life then must have been amazing.
I85PIES 1 year ago
@dodiho1965 haha can u teach my grandparents how to use the internet
KyUuTiP 1 year ago
@dodiho1965 wow. I envy that. being 18, i find it amazing that even though i never lived through this period, i like each character so much. As for me, none of my rugby mates resemble any of them in the slightest. All in all i just plain love this movie! (i wish i could live this movie reallllllly badly!)
ThinLizzy86 11 months ago
@ThinLizzy86 Same here:(...I hate being a teen because no oe is like this.Alot of teens are either posers,all about fashion,dramatic,or full of themselves.I wish I lived back in this time.
kaylawayla23 11 months ago
@dodiho1965
everytime i watch films like these, i wonder how great it would of been to grow up in the 50s & 60s.
714a13x909 11 months ago 20
@714a13x909 the answer is....bitchin'
skubamoose 7 months ago
@714a13x909 the answer is....bitchin'
and i grew up in Modesto.
skubamoose 7 months ago
@714a13x909 so do i am glad that there is someone besides myself that enjoys this
52goodguy 4 months ago
@714a13x909 "would HAVE been..."
TippetyWhip 1 month ago
dude i wish i was born in the 50's it look like fun but not for black people lol.
The371554 2 years ago
Don't believe the negative propaganda.
It' was fun for black kids. Blacks had the same parties and teenage experiences as whites.
tumsabai1 1 year ago
why couldnt i have been born in the 50's
yankeefan032 2 years ago 4
yeah...that's what I sometimes say to myself. But sometimes i'm like: I wish i was born even before the 50's
so I could live the good old days of the 50's and 60's :P
nickettino89 2 years ago 4
The greatest movie ever made !!
slippery396 2 years ago 45
@slippery396 And Star Wars, and the Spielberg's films ?
GGbreizh 1 year ago
The name of the song is; 16 candles
Koopmannetjes 2 years ago
not
gen456789 2 years ago
whats the song name at 3 min at 14 sec ?
gen456789 2 years ago
Pop's been going downhill since MIchael Jackson died, Couintry/Western rules in Modesto now..
vitoduval 2 years ago
I watched part of this movie being filmed, ate at Mel's weekly as a treat, and my father and I dragged on 4th street. If I remember correctly, the old courthouse was in the movie. The courthouse burned down shortly thereafter.
Not only does the movie kick ass but it is walking down memory lane to me.
ArisztidZ 2 years ago 4
There's a song in the movie that says "go dany go" or something like that. which is the name?
ricota101 2 years ago
you mean , go johnny go. johnny b. good
l82corvette 2 years ago
i don't think i've ever seen anyone as cool as milner. i'm sorry that actor's career didn't take off.
scofieldinasia 2 years ago
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Halfmoonbay3 2 years ago
this is 2009 please stop saying hella
beasst94 2 years ago
bitch
i
can
say HELLA
Halfmoonbay3 2 years ago
This film and music are especially important to me because of where I was in the summer of l962--doing the same thing these kids were and waiting to start college in the fall.
a1gfuse 2 years ago
@a1gfuse:
Hey oldtimer what's the name of the song playing at 7:44 seconds of this video????
Just2aly 2 years ago
runaway
gen456789 2 years ago
it was great to hear rock around the clock first, this movie sure has an awesome soundtrack
netowner666 2 years ago 6
yeah. Ron Howard can't seem to get away from that song though.
richardaiken1 2 years ago 2
One of my favorit movies but not watchable here, terrible picture!!
olds1978 2 years ago
George Lucas is a fu&%in genius!!! First saw this in `78 on TV. I was 6 and Star Wars had just come out and ABC was latching on to the George Lucas craze. I wanted to be John Milner so bad,I would wrap a pack of Crayons under my white T-shirt sleeve like a pack of Camels and ride my bike around my neighborhood lookin for trouble. XD!!!
RideMyBMW 2 years ago
Hard to believe that 10 years separate the era the movie was made and the era it depicts.
What a ride the 60's were.
GwaiiEagle1 2 years ago
one of my top 5 favorit movies....
certainly my favorit soundtrack.
swampzoid 2 years ago
tht sure is oddly proportioned movie
darush012 2 years ago
Why i see the movie here in a strange way?? The picture is strange
olds1978 2 years ago
Because it was filmed in wide screen format.
The video is 'squeezed' together to fit small screens.
tommylord 2 years ago
Where is Skywalker
Stanthecornfarmer 2 years ago
I recently went to San Fran and at at Mel's drive-in. It was the one near the Golden gateway Holiday inn. I'm not sure if that is where American Graffiti was shot, but there was a lot of posters from the movie in the restaurant. I have always been a big fan of the movie and was excited to be at Mel's.
mediadude4God 2 years ago
mediadude4God it was shot at Mel's Drive-in - Cnr. South Van Ness Ave. & Mission Street, San Francisco, California, USA
grabar20 2 years ago
orgasmic film
Gordanfreeman456 2 years ago
teeny weeny cars!
live4marilyn 2 years ago
Great movie. Seen it a hundred times. Met Wolfman Jack at Ft. Hood, Texas in 1974. Was a hellava guy.
ednnancy 2 years ago
...va bene...aggiungo le prime scene...già che ci siamo..
plappolog 2 years ago
that i part is funny wear that guy drives in to the telephone area. i love that part.
opietaylor100 2 years ago
superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!
hab den film seit JAHREN nicht mehr gesehen!!
super ich wuenschte das die 60s meine jugendzeit gewesen waeren!!
sozakir 2 years ago 2
for the person who said I love the 50's you realize the movie was set in '62.
456stix 2 years ago
Culturally, symbolically, this is more the fifties, much the same way as the nineties pretty much ended on 2001-9-11. Poodle-skirts and dragging main, Buddy Holly and drive-ins all peg the epoch.
Shufei 2 years ago 2
You're right. Its about the end of an era. Notice that Steve's car is a '58 Chevy.
slbiggs36 2 years ago
I love this movie!!the !the fabulous 50's!!!!
Kikitwiggy 2 years ago