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The film garnered a great deal of critical acclaim: Robert Blake "displays a superabundance of magnetism and machismo" (Cue) as a good cop on the ultimate bad bike in this "powerful" (Boxoffice) film featuring "striking action sequences" (Leonard Maltin) and a "bravura rock score" (Los Angeles Times).

Blake plays a motorcycle cop named John Wintergreen who patrols the rural Arizona highways with his partner, nicknamed "Zipper". The only thing good-hearted John Wintergreen wants is to become a detective - to wear a big Stetson, smoke fancy cigars and be paid to think. He is a rookie cop who resents being in traffic enforcement and wants to be transferred to homocide investigation. At first his supervisors ignore his request for a transfer. When he stumbles upon a dead body, he is finally given his wish and gets to take on the case...and proves his stuff! But as soon as he's promoted, the corruption he must tolerate makes the Stetson not fit so well and the cigars not taste so good. Wintergreen's relationship with his fellow officers deteriorates as Wintergreen begins increasingly to identify with the hippies whom the other officers are endlessly harassing. Workplace politics cause him to be quickly demoted back to traffic enforcement. Forced to confront his own disillusionment, Wintergreen heads out in his bike, the Electra Glide, where he makes another shocking discovery that could cost him his life: Zipper's dream was to own his own motorcycle, and he was embezzling money to pay for it. Wintergreen shoots Zipper in self-defense, but shortly after loses his own life in an ending reminiscent of that in Easy Rider. For the university, see Stetson University. ... Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... This article is about the movie Easy Rider. ...