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Related: About this forumOn this day, March 1, 1967, "Riot on Sunset Strip" was released.
Riot on Sunset Strip
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Directed by: Arthur Dreifuss
Written by: Orville H. Hampton
Produced by: Sam Katzman
Starring: Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Tim Rooney
Cinematography: Paul Vogel
Edited by: Ben Lewis
Music by: Fred Karger
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date: March 1, 1967
Running time: 87 minutes
Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 counterculture-era exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures. It was filmed and released within four months of the late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.
The film stars Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Laurie Mock, Gene Kirkwood, Tim Rooney, and features musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watch Band. Earlier that year, Farmer, Mock and Kirkwood appeared in Hot Rods to Hell, where Farmer portrayed the bad girl and Mock a vulnerable virgin. In this film, they switched characters.
The film attempts to capture the essence of the period around the Sunset Strip riot, and also adds a subplot that revolves around a young girl's troubled relationship with her divorced parents. Her dosage with LSD by a would-be seducer, the subsequent 'acid trip' she experiences, and her later discovery by 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.
Production notes
"Riot on Sunset Strip", a classic song in the genre of garage punk, was written for the film by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells.
The film was made for MGM but they could not move fast enough to release it so Katzman sold it to American International Pictures.
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Film poster
Directed by: Arthur Dreifuss
Written by: Orville H. Hampton
Produced by: Sam Katzman
Starring: Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Tim Rooney
Cinematography: Paul Vogel
Edited by: Ben Lewis
Music by: Fred Karger
Distributed by American International Pictures
Release date: March 1, 1967
Running time: 87 minutes
Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 counterculture-era exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures. It was filmed and released within four months of the late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.
The film stars Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Laurie Mock, Gene Kirkwood, Tim Rooney, and features musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watch Band. Earlier that year, Farmer, Mock and Kirkwood appeared in Hot Rods to Hell, where Farmer portrayed the bad girl and Mock a vulnerable virgin. In this film, they switched characters.
The film attempts to capture the essence of the period around the Sunset Strip riot, and also adds a subplot that revolves around a young girl's troubled relationship with her divorced parents. Her dosage with LSD by a would-be seducer, the subsequent 'acid trip' she experiences, and her later discovery by 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.
Production notes
"Riot on Sunset Strip", a classic song in the genre of garage punk, was written for the film by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells.
The film was made for MGM but they could not move fast enough to release it so Katzman sold it to American International Pictures.
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The Standells - Riot on Sunset Strip
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From the opening of the classic American International Pictures film "Riot on Sunset Strip".
j peoplemover
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From the opening of the classic American International Pictures film "Riot on Sunset Strip".
The Chocolate Watch Band "Don't Need Your Lovin'"
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The Chocolate Watch Band : Don't Need Your Lovin'
From the film "Riot on sunset strip" (1967).
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rapido1
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The Chocolate Watch Band : Don't Need Your Lovin'
From the film "Riot on sunset strip" (1967).
If any artist/label want material removed, please just ask via message and it will be done without fanfare. Thanks.
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On this day, March 1, 1967, "Riot on Sunset Strip" was released. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2023
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Mimsy Farmer is in the film More, as a hippy chick and the Pink Floyd soundtrack
BigmanPigman
Mar 2023
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I just set up Roku the other day. I'll have to look for that. Thanks. NT
mahatmakanejeeves
Mar 2023
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BigmanPigman
(51,591 posts)2. Mimsy Farmer is in the film More, as a hippy chick and the Pink Floyd soundtrack
You Tube won't let me share the whole film even though it is free.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,446 posts)3. I just set up Roku the other day. I'll have to look for that. Thanks. NT