American Graffiti (1973 Film) 💥 Then and Now 2021
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- Where were you in ‘62? Is quite honestly one of the best coming-of-age films ever. Directed by George Lucas it’s nothing short of the classic cruisin-for-a-bruisin while bathing in the last bits of youth, for this central group of teenagers, some off to college when the sun rises. And some living in that perpetual question mark . [ • Grease - Summer Nights 2:25] The atmosphere, the cars, the music, we feel like we’re sitting next to Richard Dreyfus as his newfound and unmet love drives away. This classic American film was actually first rejected by executives at just about every major film studio before it was finally successful with Universal Pictures. It has since become one of the most profitable films ever made.
I’m your host Nostalgic Nick, and today we’re heading back to 1960’s Modesto and taking a look at what the cast has been up to since then. If you like this video, be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more nostalgic videos - let’s get to the good stuff...
American Graffiti is a 1973 American coming-of-age comedy film starring:
Richard Dreyfuss as Curt
Ron Howard as Steve
Paul Le Mat as John
Charles Martin Smith as Terry
Cindy Williams as Laurie
Candy Clark as Debbie
Mackenzie Phillips as Carol
Wolfman Jack as Disc Jockey
Manuel Padilla Jr. Carlos
Bo Hopkins as Joe
Harrison Ford as Bob Falfa
Lynne Marie Stewart as Bobbie
Kathleen Quinlan as Peg
Joe Spano as Vic
Debralee Scott as Falfa's Girl
Suzanne Somers as Blonde in T-Bird
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Having lived through that era, it's staggering how realistic that movie was -- in the set, in the music, and in the cultural interactions. That cruising scene was really the way it was in hundreds of towns across America. It strikes me that kids today don't have anywhere near the fun that we had in the 60's. . .
My dad was born in 1941 so 1962 he was 20/21. This movie was one of his favorites, and I regret not watching it with him at least once to get his take on it and that era, and I can't because he died in 1990 when I had just turned 21. I have a picture of my first real girlfriend and I with Wolfman Jack, my dad made us go down and meet him while he was DJing some radio thing at the Greenhouse on St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands in the summer of 1986, when I was 17 - I grew up on the island. I did not get to talk to him and really didn't know much about him beyond what my dad told me, "a pirate radio jockey on the border of Mexico". I remember he was not tall and very round.
My all-time favorite movie. My teenage years in Napa, CA in the mid-80s were just like this movie, just different hair and clothes. We even cruised in Petaluma, where Graffiti was filmed.
I was born in 53 but had siblings born 10 years before me. We lived on a lake year round and in the summer the population probably increased 3 or 4 times. Everyone would run there cars around the road. They was also a clubhouse that had dances Friday and Saturday nights.
You're right about that. All the electronic handcuffs nowadays on the kids are truly handcuffs.
It is easy to remember when you LIVED it. Musically I am still living in the 50;s and 60's. Hardly a day goes by without playing the Moonglows, Drifters, Five Keys, and Skyliners, (more)....
My Dad took my sister and me to see it when it came out in 73. We liked it, but my dad was pumped up afterwards and took us to Bob's big boy for a burger and strawberry pie. Those were the days.
Awwwwwww
Sounds really cool. Your dad sounds like a good man.
@@donaldwhitten2438 Yea and still is at 81 thanks. I was enlisted in the Army for 22 years so I know how lucky I am to even have a dad or a place to stay or food.
What a great dad you had to do that & I so loved “Abdows”( their Big Boy & strawberry pie)! I would sometimes mix it up & ask for a “Hi Boy”( not on their menu but if you asked fir it here in West Spfld., Massachusetts they would make it for you( sauce was tartar sauce, same as Burger Chef’s “Big Chef” burger)! Oh the memories...
@@karenstrycharz1499 Yea if we could only go back when we wanted lol.
One of the best movies of the last 50 years
The sequel to the movie was not very good.
Was in the navy in 73, I went and watched the movie Five times in a week made me homesick for my own hot rod back home.
I was 19 years old and stationed in Korea, and I saw this in the vllage , and I thought it was great. Made me homesick .
I was in the Navy and saw it in the base theater.
Dan & Chris, Thank-you both for your service to our country!!!♥️
I had the privilege to meet Paul LeMat and Candy Clark and got their autographs. I remember Candy Clark being particularly gracious and a pleasure to talk to.
In the summer of `73, I was heading into my Junior year of high school and one of my best friends and I hit the theater showing AG, an old style single-screen movie house. We hit that theater every day for three weeks, seeing the movie twenty-something times before we had to quit because we were both broke.
Watch this movie more times than I can count. Not only have I watched it in English I've also watched it dubbed over in french. Have to love the 55 Chevy driven by Harrison Ford but John Milner was my favorite character. It was a great ensemble of actors and characters. Milner's Deuce Coupe sits on my mantle as a model and I did up when I was in my teens. Will never grow tired of watching this classic
This film is the diary of my teenage years in this era. I fondly remember cruising Woodward Avenue (U.S. 10) in a brand new 1959 Ford. Woodward is an eight lane divided highway famous coast to coast as the highway-dragway with the U.S 10 sign near my house in advertisements for G.M. muscle cars. Our Mel's Drive-in was Elias Brothers Big Boy where for a Dollar one could get a Big Boy burger, fries and a drink, and gas at the Shell station across the avenue was 19.9 cents a gallon. As Archie and Edith sang, "Those were the days."
Am from downriver and I use to go there all the time. I graduated in 1966.
What city was this?
@@RuleofFive The city is Royal Oak Michigan a northern suburb of Detroit. My family lived there from 1951 to 1965. A source for pictures which show places I mentioned :
facebook.com/royaloakhistory/photos/?ref=page_internal
I lived on Yorba Linda about 1/4 mile from Woodward. Although I've lived in several places I consider Royal Oak to be my hometown.
@@OleGeezerCirca1941 Thank you!
i lived in cleve oh we had 3 bigboys to cruise in one night-man were we busy-and yes for a dollar you could get that and gas here was 19 cents-if you bought it🤣😁😀😝🙃
I can't believe you didn't mention Suzanne Somers???
Saw this when it debuted in Los Angeles. Really enjoyed it as a 24 year old but never realized it would be such an icon.
Loved this movie so much! My husband & I watch it constantly in reruns. Filled with so many “stars” too! Loved the 🎶 music, as well!
I love this movie. Now I have to go watch it again.
Such an underrated movie! it’s a shame because It’s so good! 😎🤟🏻👏🏻
Underrated??.. by who??
This movie was a huge success..
Holly wood knights way better and better cars COBRA yea cobra
@@jamesclark9479 you took the words right out of my mouth LOL
@@patrickdecambra2219 Five years after this movie was another fun to watch movie.Animal House !.
@@michaelweizer7794 that's only one of the best movies ever made LOL
Wish I owned just one of the cars from that movie, wow they were beautiful.
I'd have liked to bought one before they got so valuable. The 58 Impala was owned until 2019 by a guy who paid $300 for it. I'm guessing that Ray Evernham paid him a lot more than that for it.
Ron Howard once said that George Lucas spent as much time choosing the cars for the movie as he did casting the actors.
I will always remember Paul Le mat not just for American Graffiti but for The Night they saved Christmas. It's still my favorite Christmas movie ever
At 6:08, does he really say Mackenzie "Phillips began acting in 1952..." when she wasn't even born until 1959.
I noticed that too!
Love everything American Graffiti. Even cruised Van Nuys BLVD in the middle 70's.
Cruising was a big deal in the 80s in the bay area. Sometimes we even cruised in Petaluma with thousands of other car.
I love this movie! I found an old 8-track cassette of my mom's with this soundtrack & I played that thing over & over before I ever saw the movie. I had just broken up with my first boyfriend before seeing this movie. He was a red-head & seeing Ron Howard here just made me sad & reminded me of him. My favorite by far, though, was John Milner. What an awesome character, & Paul LeMat was gorgeous! I wish I could have lived in this sockhop, soda fountain era. Sigh.
My favorite scene is the rear axle of the cop car lol
That was the best
Mine is the liquor store robbery but yeah that cop car is hilarious
I like when the kid with glasses backs in to the car behind him and makes his little speech then takes off 😂😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@donaldwhitten2438 leave me alone for christs sake!!
This was my 1st PG movie I ever saw in the theatre. Loved it!
Suzanne Somers? No mention of her.
Because she had a non speaking part.
A timeless classic that you can watch over and over. Very fun to watch.
Saw this in the theater opening night..."I ain't nobody DORK!"...lmao
This is my most favorite movie ever...I saw it a million times when it came out. The music shaped my love for rock and roll that I love today. I am still living American Graffiti today....in my heart for ever.
I grew up in Petaluma CA. Where most of the film was done. .In 1973 I was out of the Navy and going to junior college. Every April the town would have an American Grafitti day and most of the cast would be there.including a couple of the cars from the movie. There was also a car show with over 200 hot rods. I miss those days. 😀🤤👍✌
A family of 5 from Ireland came to visit us for 3 weeks in 2013. They stayed in Sonoma while their dad did a job in Santa Rosa. They found the American Graffiti CD and played it over and over and really loved it. So I took them through Petaluma and showed where it was filmed. We stopped on Old Adobe Road where the race scene happened. It changed a lot since the filming.
My son saw Candy Clark at a car show in Oregon. He brought me back a signed movie poster. Also a picture with my son and grandson. My son was born in 83 and was raised right. I still want to build a piss yellow Model A.
Great story! BTW, the piss yellow deuce coupe was a Model B (1932).
@@bostonvair An old model A 5
window body is more in my budget than a 32. I actually know where there is a coupe body in a field but the farmer seems to like it there. I may have to stop in again and ask him again one of these days.
Kathleen Quinlan is also in this film. She played Peg, Laurie's friend, in the sock hop scene, and appears with Ron Howard where she says, "Joe College strikes out." Years later, Howard would direct her in Apollo 13. Small world, indeed.
They are all so faithful to their people. It's cool.
You forgot to mention Bo Hopkins who was one of the Pharaohs that take Curt for a 'ride' around town. I got to meet Him a few years ago. Good guy.
sorry that hes gone-as a child he was on andy griffith show
I've actually met 3 cast members from American Graffiti. Met Mckenzie Phillips on the set of So Weird in 1999 in Vancouver Canada. Later met Charles Martin Smith who played Toad at the Marriott hotel where I work and last but not least Harrison Ford at the same hotel in Vancouver where as a bellman took him to his room on the night shift !
harrison ford likes to distance himself from the film-i know because im a friend of pauls
Can't believe you missed mentioning Charles Martin Smith's performances in "The Buddy Holly Story" and "The Untouchables."
STARMAN
Cry wolf
And he also co-starred with Ron Howard in "More American Graffiti" reprising their roles and continuing the story.
He was also in a 80's movie called Cotton Candy
And Cindy Williams and Harrison Ford were both in "The Conversation" w/Gene Hackman. A must see film!
Thot that this film was pure creative genius. The "real Story" (punch line) was in the credit crawl. Who ever did that before?
One of the best movies ever,I met Candy Clark at the SEMA show in Vegas, a very nice woman
I met Candy Clark and Paul Lemat at a car show. Both very nice people and fun to talk with.
Ageless beauty.
Remember listening to Wolfman IN SoCal after school back in the late 60's on XERB.
He was a classic back then. It's too bad we don't have someone like him today. Couchgrouch
his wave strenth was so strong I could pick him up in Coulee City Wash. most nights...I used my mother's nail polish to mark the dial on my cheap am radio...lol
Yeah, XERB was/is one of those Mexican mega-stations operating just over the Texas border at 250,000 watts, five times the US legal broadcasting limit, immune from the FCC. We heard it loud and clear in Sacramento.
OMG!! This is one of my all time fav movies!! It gives me warm fuzzie feelings!! Damm! can I please go back to the 60s and the 70s! The 2000s SUCK!!!!!
JUST WAIT - YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHING YET! WHAT IS COMING IS GOING TO BE THE SUCKIEST DAMN DECADE BAR NONE; 2020 -2030! CHAPSTICK WON'T HELP THE LIPS AND K-Y GEL LUBE WON'T HELP THE A-HOLE! WE'RE ALL ABOUT TO GET THE SCREW JOB NONE OF US WILL EVER FORGET...
One of my all time favorites! Loved this movie!❤😎
This was fun. Thank you. Back when this film was made Charlie (Martin Smith) was a friend. We were in university together. He was at my wedding. He was a quite talented guy. Glad to know he’s still working.
Great cars, great story, great actors and great memories.
The yellow Deuce Coupe with Milner and Carol is my favorite car that whole night. Without the Mackenzie Phillips character John Milner would have just come across as being kind of a jerk but you get to see how nice he treats her because of her being young
I don't remember very much about 1962 because I was only 2 years old. I saw the film in 1973 when I was 13.
WHAT? No Suzanne Somers?
Great vid!!!!!!!!!! 👍👍👍👍
Mackenzie Phillips was born in 1959... How did she begin acting in 1952?
I was wondering the same thing.
She used a time machine.
Computer generated videos must have time machines for actors
My list of top 10 films has changed a lot over the decades, but AG always holds the top spot. Staggering film. Another is The Exorcist. (Honorable mention: Billy Jack.)
LOVE this movie!! Fell in Love with Bob Falpha and definitely miss Wolfman Jack 🥺
Wolfman Jack hosted the music show MIdnight Special for years on TV. I know, not a movie
There were also a few future stars to come out of this movie like the aforementioned Suzanne Sommers as others commented; Deboralee Scott as Harrison Ford's girlfriend; Bo Hopkins as one of the gang members and Suzanne Richardson in the diner scene.
That movie had so many actors who later went onto be stars or at least TV personalitys
@@dangreene9846 harrison ford?HA! Paul Lemat is thee star ford just went along for the ride
I lived thar life just like they did i had a 1946 ford hot rod and we drove up and dow the streets on friday and Saturday nights i n Oklahoma city. Those were very happy days.
i love this movie. i have it on dvd
Watching the movie took me back to my youth and fun nights of doing the same. Hot rods cute girls and drinking wine on the weekends. Built a 33 ford coupe with my granddaughter and had so much fun with her reliving the those high school daze, and taking her on weekend rides and car shows with our hot rod club. After Viet Nam I became a therapist working with at risk youth and just hate kids today missed the 60's and have to live a different life style which was way too much fun for me. American Graffiti forever.
I was born August 22, 1962, so I would've just been born when this movie was supposed to take place.
Great point!!! I was born in May '62
My dad had buddies just like milner in the 50s and early 60s
In Napa, CA in the early 80s there was a guy in his 20s that cruised in his 68 Camaro that ran 10.30s looking for a race. Us teenagers all called him Milner, and he hated it.
ALLSOME!, thank you!!!!!
My favorite all-time movie!
Joe Spano from "Hill Street Blues" has a small part in the film. Ron Howard would later cast him in "Apollo 13."
Also NCIS
This is my favorite movie and I have a few autografts of them. Cindy was great to meet we talked for a little bit and she was so sweet. 😘❣
Dad ran a speed shop in the 60's and we had chopped Model A's and assorted hot rods in and out of the driveway all through the 60's and early 70's. I got to live that era growing up so AG is one of my fave flicks to watch. Second movie was not quite so good but still enjoyable. Thanks for the memories
He was young in an episode of Bewitched! He being Richard Dryfess
I loved this movie in 1973 I was 10 but being the youngest of 5 kids I knew more about stuff than the average 10 year old 😉☮️
You're so old! I was only 9 in 1973 😁
@@BlackHatCinephile Lol 😂
@@peaceworld5393 What a difference a year made back then.
@@BlackHatCinephile true that I was so in tune with so much was unreal! I’m so lucky being the youngest of 5 !
@@peaceworld5393 I was the oldest of 3. Born in 64, my kid sisses came along in 67 and 69. I was the boss, till the middle one decided I wasn't, lol.
Thank you
I was a senior in high school when American Graffiti came out and I loved it. I soon after bought the sound track record. I also enjoyed the sequel. I wish there had been at least one more.
Debbie was the most important and entertaining thing about this very entertaining film! Second was Carol and beyond that everyone was really good!
greatest film ever made Geo. is an icon
I lived where it was filmed in Petaluma then, and now I live in NC where fictional Mayberry was (Mount Airy). My cousin still lives in Petaluma and my sister lives in Ceres (next to Modesto) so I get plenty of American Graffiti once a year. Petaluma is a beautiful town, and my high school gym (where they dance) is still there.
i live near cleveland we have annabelles restaurant a true 50s diner its like mels every weekend
Missed Manuel Padilla Jr.... Also played in Scarface most famous scene "shower scene " and was a childhood actor as well in Tarzan along with many others. I just got back from Pateluma yesterday where they fimed it.
I know of this movie but Ive never seen it now Ive got to check it out!
SEE IT ASAP!!!
Ya you really should
Its good coming of age movie with some very funny moments.
It is in a league of its own, up there with Citizen Kane et al. Once seen , never forgotten.
I lived in Modesto when they were filming it
R.I.P CINDY
Mackenzie Phillips in that Disney show so weird thank you I've been trying to think of that name of that show forever
In OKC The streets on Route 66 had signs stating no upturns between 10 pm and 6am because of all the kids dragging up and down( main).
does "up turn"mean a "u turn"🌆🌆
awesome pic..👍👍👍👍👍.................... the movie was done in 73 and I am now 73... I also had a 55 chevy with a big block before any of the movies came up with the concept. I also wrecked the car. went air born. big-time.... crashed landed like a 747 plowing up a field of dirt..
Damn, donuts and beer
I Met "Candy Clark" In Person Year's Ago Here In Chicago Illinois And Gave Her My PHONE NUMBER!!!😉👍
Did she ever call you?
@@harperstacey9604 No. She said that she was going to call me but I didn't hear from her. ALSO, My Phone Number had Changed.
I wondered if she called too but then I saw your reply! How cool that you actually got to meet her!
@@karenstrycharz1499 Yes! She is Very Sociable!! We were talking about the Movie and something about her and her invention. She Autographed A Picture of her and Said That She Was Going To CALL ME!!!😀👏👏👏😉👍
LOVED, loved, loved AG. It was impeccably cast with largely unknown kids ... who all went on to build fabulous careers. The choice of music was perfect. Set design, slang, cars, and costumes were SO authentic to the period. The only thing that bugged me was the ending that revealed the fates of the male characters. Why weren't the girls given that treatment?
As for the sequel, I wish it had never been made. I really disliked how they handled it.
me too nancy-i had a 62 comet in 69-and im a girl-it was a rare thing-and yes the sequel sucked
❤️
No mention of Bo Hopkins?
10 years after this movie's release in 1983, Candy Clark played Roy Scheider's girl friend in "Blue Thunder".
Don't forget close encounters
reminded me I had been in Vietnam a few years earlier
I like that boy Opie....Mork from Ork...😄
M and M was just too stupid.
I wasn't even born yet when the movie released.
My all-time favorite movie. Didn't care much for More American Graffiti, though. The split screen thing, and jumping between different time periods, didn't work for me. But it was still great to have a sequel.... and the music was great, just like in the first one!
This movie 🎥 👌 brought good memories for me,I was with someone who I loved very much. The bad part of it from memory sake there was an old witch 🧙♀️ who broke us up.I've never ever liked her since she did what she did to me. I found out that sometime later that the guy I loved died . Both of us were apart from each other for 41 years. I never ever got the chance to say what I wanted to him . I sure really truly honestly did enjoy the movie 🎥, time we had together as a couple 💑. I sure really truly honestly did enjoy the music as well. Each of the actors and actresses were wonderful in the movies. As far as the movie 🎥 goes I would give it a thumbs up 👍 anytime.
Liked the movie
Well in 1962 I was 2 years old not much interested in girls or cars at that particular moment. But at age 13 in 1973 I was much more interested in girls and the cars and that movie was damn cool. 👍🇺🇲☮
Forgot to mention Suzanne Somers in the T-Bird.
I watched the movie earlier this year and could easily identify what year and make and model some the cars are being only in my early 20s I just love the 50-60s music well let's say I grew up on it thanks to my father thanks dad. If there is a car show happening around my area you know im gonna try and go to it I sat in 55 chevy bel air and man are cars basic back then before all that computerized crap they got them now
...D@mn...I knew this might be depressing when I clicked on it, but what a reminder what time does to the human body... :(.....have always loved the movie, though....haven't watched it in quite a while....
I was three when they r staging the year 1963
Suzanne summer was in this too
Was this narrated by the guy in heartbreakers?( The bartender).
No mention of Dreyfuss in Close Encounters or Candy Clark in Blue Thunder or Paul Le Mat in The Burning Bed with Farrah Fawcett. You people sure leave out A LOT of detail.
Me and good friend went to see it in ottawa ks hilltop drive in so many years ago
Should-could have mentioned Charles Martin Smith's role as scientist Mark Shermin in "Starman" (1984) who rescues the starman. He acted in or directed 56 films.
Those things are gone like homemade ice cream
there was a movie theater very close to my work ...I was 18.. and went to see It 7 times at the theater I don't remember the price
❤️🗺🌎🌍🌏 62 My Parents Were Just Barely In Grd School The 60s Was There Childhood
I actually like the sequel. Not love it...but definitely like it.
Friendship is like a wet cement
once the bond is stronger
you can't let go of the bond forever in your life
a true friend is there till the end of time!
Can I get to know more about you
More American Graffiti was just a bad movie but for a cruiser in the 80s American Graffiti was the movie. I loved dragging on the strip in my Fire bird on a Friday night and getting together with the other cruisers in the parking lot at the end of the strip. Something kids today will never know because of gas prices.
I spent the first eight months and 22 days in the womb.
I spent the last 6 months there.
"They" Do Not Have the inteligence To Make "great Movies" As This ! Hollywood Now Takes the Easy Low budget '' Portraying Crime Non Fiction Action figures" As Heros. very sad
All they make today is Woke Garbage.
@@jacobjones-4811 yeah, that’s why I quit watching tv. I have not watched tv or been to the movies in the last three years because of all the woke B S.
If you do watch anything, make sure you Pirate It. Don't give Hollywood a penny of your money.
Wait, he’s making a Willow TV show? 👍👏👏👏👏
Willow, would be quite an old codger by now, lol. That was the first movie where I took notice of Val Kilmer.
@@nancymontgomery8897 One of my favorite movies! I still watch it a couple times a year. I think it’s charming.