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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.
Cast
Aldo Ray as Walt Lorimer
Mimsy Farmer as Andrea Dollier
Michael Evans as Frank Tweedy
Laurie Mock as Liz-Ann Barbrey
Tim Rooney as Grady Toss
Bill Baldwin as Stokes
Anna Strasberg as Helen Tweedy (credited as Anna Mizrahi)
Hortense Petra as Margie
Schuyler Hayden as Herbie
Gene Kirkwood as Flip
Pat Renella as Perry
Forrest Lewis as Aynsley
George E. Carey as Arnow
John Hart as Pritchard
Dick Winslow as Curtis
See also
List of American films of 1967
Hippie exploitation films
Captivity narratives
Rape and revenge films
References
External links
Riot on Sunset Strip at IMDb
Riot on Sunset Strip at AllMovie
Review by Dennis Schwartz
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