Wild in the Streets
1968 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
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.
Direction Barry Shear
Cast Shelley Winters · Christopher Jones · Diane Varsi · Hal Holbrook · Millie Perkins · Richard Pryor · Bert Freed · Kevin Coughlin · Larry Bishop · Michael Margotta · Ed Begley · Salli Sachse · Kellie Flanagan · Don Wyndham · May Ishihara
Soundtrack Les Baxter
Screenplay Robert Thom
Cinematography Richard Moore
Original title Wild in the Streets
5.5
64 votes (FilmAffinity)
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