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Great video! More noir the better! Thank you for sharing your work!

this is pretty great. thank you for this.

The V13 on the truck is a real gang, but looks painted by someone who doesn't do graffiti. Venice tags usually have that "vato" style...

13:10 I laughed too long from that cheap joke. well done 🍷

Thank you for this analysis. Please ponder Dagger origin stories and share them with us.

The thumbnail photo features the chubby , well fed Tony Alva. as opposed to the skinny , hungry Tony Alva.

I remember going to see this flick when it came out at the now torn down, Westland Mall in Lakewood, CO. off of Colfax. I skated there with my two best friends and my newly acquired Hammerhead deck i saved up for by mowing lawns. Every seat was sold out to a kid, and every single kid had a board in hand - and no parent in sight. Can you imagine, a theater and every kid in the seat had a big bulky board with them? It was a sight to see and wonderful memory. At the very least it is absolute 80's skater fashion GOLD (even if it was suburban Hollywood wardrobe). It's great historical documentation from a short glimmer at a very specific time in American teen pop culture.

Those handful of Jaks were a diabolical move 😂 The US Bombs named a song after them.

god this movie was so rad as a kid

Fantastic jam packed info here but the delivery could have used 5 or 6 jolt colas.

As a San Francisco native I love this film, but I don't understand why they shot the scene at the amusement park in Santa Monica, when it could have been shot at San Francisco's own Playland at the Beach.

Oh, I ain't goin' to work today (yeah, why not?) 'Cause I'd rather work on breakin' my own bones with some style ya know 45 M-P-H (Go) down hill on a skate There's a code that ya better know There's one style and that's to skate We skate in packs, our flag is Jaks There's always time to race Only a fool has a pool and keeps it full Only the traitor don't ...drain his pool...GO! 45 M-P-H (Go!) down hill on a skate 45 M-P-H (Go!) down hill on a skate So there I am skatin' solo down 9th Avenue (and I rule) A couple bikers pull up on me one on each side (I hate those fucks) They try to lock me in and here comes a bus These scumbags, they want me dead I know they want my head (we gotta go!) I pull that drumstick out of my pocket (we gotta go) Puts it in the spokes, the biker slams (we gotta go) Don't laugh because he was a Jak (we gotta go) Bunch of Jaks, doing numbers, 45 (we gotta go) 45, 45 (we gotta go) Jaks (we gotta go)

Thanks for this video . I started skating in 1980 and went til 2001 . This brings back so many memories of the best years of my life as I’m in my 50’s now and neuropathy from the diabetus has left me barely able to walk even. I will have to redouble my effort to find this movie on DVD. Btw I would give anything to have a pair of ox blood red vision street wear hi tops again.

Eddie Reategui was the DAvid Lee Roth of ALVA.

70's skater. Enjoying this much more with the sound muted :)

Something makes me pop this in the vcr all the time as background vid , this movie is my childhood

I’m confused. Is skateboarding in an act of war or something. The writer and the voice over makes it feel like there’s something serious about portrayal of image. Is it not a privilege to roll on anything and just turn to be free. Skateboarding is an escape, a joy to ride. A free ride. Expression of body and mind in motion. Nothing more or nothing less than a simple privilege to be free.

i skated in the 90s with a 70s board, wasnt uncommon, you go to a junk shop as if they had any boards, and sometimes they had an old beat up 70s or 80s board in the back

Alva was told to leave Venice after this movie was made. Stupid ass buster hasn't lived there since.

The narration is so weird.

There needs some money for the poverty dope hit cause that's one of them is escape working as 1 big poverty dope hit the other 1 is like the mainstream Christian guy a biggle poverty dope hit or stands in front of somebody and takes a big old catholic dope hit or a European dope hit from the guitar so I need some money for all of the dope hits the police officer has it comes installed with a big old community dope hit

For me I was in the mix in the 80’s: skateboarding , going to punk rock, go-go, hip-hop and reggae shows, spray painting and goofing off! Didn’t pay NO mind to these films (Gleaming, etc.) but then I had kids and watched them on “Movie Night”, when video stores were still a thing, and it was corny as heck but still “wholesome” enough for us as a family. I did my best to not emulate self destructive behavior and teach my kids about counter culture yet not being entrenched in any type of way that bespoke following the herd. To me skateboarding was a tool in my kit that was fun, active, rebellious and exciting - a culture that as much as I identified with parts of it, I couldn’t get down with the destructive components that seem to be some of what I’m reading in these comments. Bless Up to all the elders that came before us 70’s-80’s kids, our contemporaries and to all the youth coming up nowadays - y’all are the “game changer’s”!!!!!

Was skateboard jousting actually a thing? I've also seen it in the NES game Skate or Die.

JUANSHOUS

I’m digging the ‘68 Cougar in the opening sequence. Not nearly as much as I dig Lynda but it’s still cool.

Wonderwoman pushes mongo.

Goddam a pile of cocaine and a time machine and I’d be hittin up wonder woman for sure

Nobody marked their boards under the trucks. Kooks. I grew up skating since the 70's and managed a skate shop for years in the 1980's. TV and movies have never gotten it right. Most of the guys who I skated, snowboarded, and surfed with, and went to punk shows with, went on to get graduate degrees and work as professionals.

I'm gonna thumbs down if I don't find out if part 2 exists, or it's yet to be made? I hate it when it says part 1, if there's no part 2 it's not a part!

BAHNE ..KRYPTONICS ..GERMAN BALL BEARINGS ...#SKATEBOARDINGISNOTACRIME..

those aint t bolts that hold rails on they are sex bolts fool!

Nice research and compilation. We used to learn on a magazine and beta max or vhs about skateboarding. And riding on a flat nose skateboard.

"Vanessa avoids viewing the world through the cynical lens expected of her personal experience." Nice touch.

Yes, the urban skating in this film was important. A lot of us (poor) kids didn't have access to ramps in the 80s or afterward, which required money or handy dads. We just skated whatever we found and loved it.

I have lived in San Francisco for 44 years, and love your descriptions. One nitpick: it would be more accurate to say that the buildings are built level and plumb onto a variety of slanting, crooked streets.

skaters are so hilarious

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Here’s a little more info on Brolin, he is one of the friendliest actors(and best)I’ve ever met, in fact he walked over to me and introduced himself. Hope to see him again!

Hey the kid lighting firecrackers in urinals plays Yabbo in Gleaming the Cube

The shot of the Daggers cresting the hill is iconic. It was definitely copied in Christian Slater's Gleaming the Cube when him and his crew go out to avenge his brother's death

The biggest small town in the USA.

18:58 Oh !!! A Hookups board !!!

Dude, you really did a great job researching all these "fun facts" about the movie! I grew up in this era, and though this movie is certainly corny to watch now it was one I watched many times over with friends as a kid. It'll always have a special place in my heart, like many 80s movies. I appreciate you making this! Cheers. ⚡️🤘⚡️

2:43 it looks like they’re skating Ibanez jems ! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUCKKKING SICKKK ! No stupid metro station or stupid Dolby theatre just that beautiful green ledge…Sigh.

perfect. you nailed it.

I’m a middle aged skater who started in 87 and to be honest it wasn’t a false assessment that most of us were losers and kids from broken homes in the 90s. It wasn’t the rule but it was the norm.

Damn wonder women was hot

Great job

If anything, this is a reminder of just how stupid Hollywood is. The whole concept is moronic. Glad i stepped away from television.

You do get a lot of Noir set in San Francisco. This is an unscientific ranking, but of "classic" noir I would guess the number one locale is L.A., followed by S.F., with N.Y.C. a surprisingly distant third. What's also noteworthy is that a surprising number of these films do utilize location shooting. Most Hollywood films were shot almost exclusively within the confines of a Hollywood studio until the late 1960's. My guesses as to why S.F. was the exception are: (1) San Francisco is close enough to L.A. for relatively easy travel. Remember, this is before jet air travel. Sound film equipment was also still fairly large and cumbersome. S.F. was within reasonable travel distance to send a crew and equipment and still be fairly economical. (2) Many noir stories required a contemporary urban setting. Though L.A. did actually have some pretty dense urban areas at this time (notably Bunker Hill), overall it was a sprawling bunch of suburbs in search of a city. S.F. is known to have a denser "eastern" looking development pattern like New York or Boston. However... (3) While the urban landscape of San Francisco may have featured some reminders of cities back east, its location on the west coast, i.e. the "gateway to the Pacific", its historic reputation from the rough and tumble "anything goes" gold rush and Barbary Coast years, and its diverse population and cultures (including one of America's biggest Chinatowns) gave it a more exotic and intriguing air. There's a line in The Portrait of Dorian Gray about how everyone who's missing eventually turns up in San Francisco. And that's what it was for much of its history: a place you could go to get away from your past and start over as someone else. Of course, once you've got there, you've also reached the end, at least of the American continent. Your back is up against the wall, figuratively speaking. That's what noir is all about.