Riot on Sunset Strip
| Riot on Sunset Strip | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Arthur Dreifuss |
| Produced by | Sam Katzman |
| Written by | Orville H. Hampton |
| Starring | Frank Alesia Bill Baldwin Tony Benson George Carey The Chocolate Watch Band Michael Evans Mimsy Farmer Al Ferrara John Hart Gene Kirkwood Forrest Lewis Laurie Mock Hortense Petra Aldo Ray Pat Renella Tim Rooney The Standells Dick Winslow |
| Music by | Fred Karger |
| Cinematography | Paul Vogel |
| Editing by | Ben Lewis |
| Distributed by | American International Pictures |
| Release date(s) | March 18, 1967 |
| Running time | 87 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $250,000 |
Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 low-budget exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures, and filmed and released within six weeks of the actual late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.
The movie starred Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg and Tim Rooney, and featured musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watch Band.
The garage punk classic song, "Riot On Sunset Strip," was written for the film by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells.
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 by Ray (a police sergeant) as the victim of gang rape, are among the movie's peak moments.
The film is now available on DVD through the MGM Limited Edition Collection.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Riot on Sunset Strip at the Internet Movie Database
- Riot on Sunset Strip at AllRovi
- Review by Dennis Schwartz
- [1] DVD available
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