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Wild in the Streets
- Director: Barry Shear
- Writer: Robert Thom
- Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff; Jack W. Cash
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A practically unwatchable and unintelligent teen satire - badly acted, atrociously directed and nominated for an editing Oscar! Explain that one!
Shear was a TV director - an arena where where he should have remained.
The music - even for its time - is sub-standard.
And poor Shelley Winters - what was she thinking?!? This is definitely one of those films to delete from the portfolio.
Camp nonsense with a lousy script.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth vote in his run for the Senate, Frost wills himself into the system, gaining new rights for the young. Eventually, Frost runs for the presidency. Winning in a landslide, he issues his first presidential edict: All oldsters are required to live in "retirement homes" where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the 60s catch phrase "Never trust anyone over 30" to its most extreme consequences.
Cast & Characters
Steve Jones as Voice - Himself;
Shelley Winters as Mrs. Daphne Flatow;
Christopher Jones as Max Jacob Flatow Jr alias Frost;
Diane Varsi as Sally LeRoy;
Hal Holbrook as Sen. Johnny Fergus;
Millie Perkins as Mary Fergus;
Richard Pryor as Stanley X;
Bert Freed as Max Jacob Flatow Sr.;
Kevin Coughlin as Billy Cage;
Larry Bishop as The Hook, Abraham;
Michael Margotta as Jimmy Fergus;
Ed Begley as Sen. Allbright;
Salli Sachse as Hippie mother;
Kellie Flanagan as Young Mary Fergus;
Don Wyndham as Joseph Fergus;
May Ishihara as Fuji Elly