RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1967)
Part of the Rock and roll, dope, and fucking in the streets
| Director: | Arthur Dreifuss |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
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| Format: | Unknown |
| Language: | English |
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Riot on Sunset Strip was made in 1967, a low-budget exploitation movie, released within six weeks of the actual late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riot.
The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the "hippie riots," were a series of clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the early 1970s.
The movie starred Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg and Tim Rooney, and featured musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watchband.Along with the attempt to capture the essence of the period around the Sunset Strip riot, a subplot of the movie revolves around a young girl (Farmer)'s troubled relationship with her divorced parents (Ray and Hortense Petra). Her dosage with LSD by a would-be seductor, the subsequent 'acid trip' she experiences, and her later discovery of Ray (a police sergeant) as the victim of gang rape, are among the movie's peak moments.
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