# Name this movie

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438 "2004-09-28T05:08:46Z")
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### Author: ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438/1 "2004-09-28T05:08:46Z")

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As an IT professional I am once again humbled by my inability to find something on the IMdb. \<sigh\>

There are two motorcycle gangs, they live like medieval knights, with jousting and such, and high ideas about honor and bravery etc. It was made in the late 70s or so. I think one (or more) of the stars went on to have a big(ger) career. That’s all I remember.

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### Author: ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438/2 "2004-09-28T05:16:36Z")

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How about George A. Romero’s **Knightriders** , circa 1981?

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### Author: ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438/3 "2004-09-28T06:06:56Z")

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Yep. [Knightriders.](http://imdb.com/title/tt0082622/)

StG

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### Author: ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438/4 "2004-09-28T12:52:03Z")

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That would be it. Damn, I searched for “knights” and “motorcycles”, I just don’t see how I missed it. I couldn’t think of the word “chivalry”, I think that would have clinched it.

Thanks.

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### Author: ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2004, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-movie/266438/5 "2004-09-28T13:13:17Z")

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Great film, BTW. I think I started a thread about it before, or someone did.

I saw _Knightriders_ at the L.A. Film Expo (or something like that) when it came out. I was a big Romero fan, and really enjoyed _Dawn of the Dead_. I was expecting a gore-fest. Instead, I saw a gentle film about “right vs. wrong” with amost no blood. And I loved it. Romero was there, too. He’s freakishly tall. _Freak!!!_ Just kidding. He is tall, though. He seemed rather nervous.

In retrospect, the film is a bit flawed; but it’s still one of my favourites, and I watch the DVD from time to time.