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Wild in the Streets
If you're thirty, you're through!
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.
- Original title
- Wild in the Streets
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Revenue
- —
Wuchak
Aug 23, 2022 · via TMDB
**_Ambitious 60’s teensploitation satire is amusing, but with dull storytelling_** A new band in SoCal rises to popularity led by the charismatic Max Frost (Christopher Jones). He uses his position to unite youths and enters politics with the intent of granting teens the right to vote during the turbulent Vietnam era. Shelley Winters plays Max’ wacky mother, Hal Holbrook a supportive senator and Millie Perkins his wife. "Wild in the Streets" (1968) is a cult flick that satirizes the serious issues of the psychedelic 60s. It doesn't choose sides between young and old or liberal and conservative, but is a mocking jibe at both. It inspired the short-lived DC comic Prez from 1973. There are some catchy 60’s tunes written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil for Max’s band, such as “Shape of Things to Come” and “Fourteen or Fight,” along with several amusing bits, like the wild acid sequence in the old people's camp. Plus, it’s interesting to see Richard Pryor at 27 as the drummer of the band. Unfortunately, the ambitious story isn’t compelling, which explains the movie’s obscurity. "Lord Love a Duck" (1966) and “Village of the Giants” (1965) are overall more entertaining for this zany fare. Reeducation camps and top-down commandments, such as ordering the dragging of aged people to concentration camps and rejecting their human rights are traits of Leftist governments, like Communism, Socialism and Naziism. But it’s okay ’cuz it's all for the greater good, man. (Rolling my eyes). The film runs 1 hour, 37 minutes, and was shot in the Los Angeles area with some sequences done in DC (probably just second unit work). GRADE: C
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Shelley Winters
Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
Christopher Jones
Max (Flatow) Frost
Diane Varsi
Sally LeRoy
Hal Holbrook
Senator Fergus
Millie Perkins
Mrs. Fergus
Richard Pryor
Stanley X
Bert Freed
Max Jacob Flatow, Sr.
Kevin Coughlin
Billy Cage
Larry Bishop
The Hook
May Ishihara
Fuji Elly
Salli Sachse
Hippie Mother
Kellie Flanagan
Mary Fergus
Michael Margotta
Jimmy Fergus
Ed Begley
Senator Allbright
Bill Mumy
Boy (uncredited)
Kevin Tate
Boy (uncredited)
Gary Busey
Concert Attendee (uncredited)
Harley Hatcher
Max (Flatow) Frost (singing voice) (uncredited)
Paul Frees
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Army Archerd
Self (uncredited)
Dick Clark
TV Newscaster (uncredited)
Barry Williams
Young Max (uncredited)
Richard Moore
Director of Photography
Barry Shear
Director
Samuel Z. Arkoff
Producer
Les Baxter
Original Music Composer
Cynthia Weil
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