Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)

Directed by

Arthur Dreifuss

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage girl from a broken home gets caught up in the counterculture scene on the Sunset Strip. She is drugged with LSD and gang raped. The police and local authorities crack down on the youth protests in response.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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