Wild in the Streets (1968)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Barry Shear

Writers:

Robert Thom (screenplay)
Robert Thom (story)

Release Date:

29 May 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

If you're thirty, you're through!

Plot:

Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these...

Plot Keywords:

LSD | Political | Teen | Mother Son Relationship | Generation Gap

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Shelley Winters	...	Mrs. Daphne Flatow
Christopher Jones	...	Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost
Diane Varsi	...	Sally LeRoy
Hal Holbrook	...	Sen. Johnny Fergus
Millie Perkins	...	Mary Fergus
Richard Pryor	...	Stanley X
Bert Freed	...	Max Jacob Flatow Sr.
Kevin Coughlin	...	Billy Cage
Larry Bishop	...	The Hook, Abraham
Michael Margotta	...	Jimmy Fergus
Ed Begley	...	Sen. Allbright
Salli Sachse	...	Hippie mother
Kellie Flanagan	...	Young Mary Fergus
Don Wyndham	...	Joseph Fergus
May Ishihara	...	Fuji Elly

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content. (2003 re-rating)

Runtime:

94 min | West Germany:91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12 (cut) (1970) (re-rating) | Finland:K-16 (cut) (1969) (original rating) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved | USA:GP (re-rating) (1971) | USA:R (re-rating) (1968) | USA:R (re-rating) (2003) | West Germany:16

Company:

American International Pictures (AIP)

Trivia:

American International Pictures originally offered the role of Max Frost to noted folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, who was known at the time to want to branch out into film work. However, after reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected it, stating the story presented the youth counterculture of the 1960s in a badly distorted light.

Quotes:

Stanley X: [cupping his hand toward Allbright's ear, as they discuss lowering the voting age] They let th' OLD FOLKS in th' OLD FOLKS HOME vote!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sof Ha'Olam Smola (2004)

Soundtrack:

Shape of Things To Come

This Film is A Time Warp Back to the 1960's.

This film is a time warp of Los Angeles and the Sunset Strip in the 1960's. At first sigthing on the FLIX Channel I thought the actor was James Dean. Uncanny resemblance.

Richard Pryor as the drummer in a rock band getting high on LSD with topless white chicks must of been mind blowing for teenagers then. I missed this film totally in 1968. My parents probably made sure of it.

To see Daily Variety columnist Army Archerd, and the greatest lawyer in the nation at that time, Melvin Belli, playing themselves in a film with a whacked out Shelly Winters was just amazing.

The real night time Sunset Strip cruising footage of 1968 was really "far-out man".