With a mom like Shelley Winters no wonder the youth revolution was a success. She had the best Mommy parts - Bloody Mama, Cleopatra Jones''s Mommy-mob boss, and Roseanne's grandmother. If she had finished her Poseidon trip i'm convinced there would be no war in Israel right now. There should be a posthumous Academy award for Scenery chewing and scene stealing.
Its hard core movie , the scene Shirley winters driving hitting a kid sitting front lawn killing him. That made her son the chemist/self made millionaire) hate her even more. Every 60s movie has chemist, (even 'my three sons) my three sons were total chemist. Ordinary intellectual looking 1960s suberban highschool lsd chemist. Ordinary corrupt human love' Deafheaven
About 10 years ago maybe longer Target had a commercial featuring one of the songs without the lyrics from W.I.TSs The movie when originally shown in movie theatres was on the movie screens for about 3 months After Target came out with the commercial a renewed interest came to be for this movie. First it was only available on VHS. Demand came in & the movie was then available on DVD but it took a very long time to come on DVD. Then finally came out on RUclips.
I'm here because I heard radio talk show host Chris Plant talking about it comparing him to the current Idiot Congressman Max Frost from Fla. who wants to tear down the Statue of Liberty in support of all illegal aliens.
1:05:00 He is so right about how the Democrats see the negros. Democrat party created by slave holders for slave holders. Democrats created the KKK, the Jim Crow laws, segregated the south and the Federal Govt.
Let me guess...the first states for the 14 voting age after Calif was NY, Oregon, Md. Ill. N.J. Az. Col. and Wash. state and Wash, DC. All liberal sh!tholes.
10:35 Thats 52% Baby Boomers. And to this day the Baby boomers are still the majority population because later generations are not reproducing as fast.
I doubt they really wrecked the Rolls on an AIP budget. They probably drove it as far off the road as they could without damaging it, laid it carefully on its side, pieced together stills and sped up the final product. They did apparently sacrifice an 8 year-old Chrysler, though.
I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1968 at the Chicago Opera House this movie brings back great memories the light show was fantastic the soft machine was the first group they were excellent
Definitely an absurdly humorous and truly entertaining 'Blast From The Past'.... 🤓 Hal Holbrook squaring-off with Chris Jones and the U.S. Senate Chamber scenes were indeed _"a slice of cinematic history"_ !!!! 🤣 And Shelley Winters' well-performed role as the "newly transformed" Flower Power People was absolutely Hilarious, too....🤪 The only thing left-out of this script was the Hari Krishnas inundating the Sunset Strip scenes, as certainly was the case in the late 1960s. 😵💫
55 years ago I saw this movie. It affected me the same way then as now. The voting age should go up! Only if you're in the military should you be able to vote under the age of 25!
New York Times, ON DVD; Are You Over 35? ‘Wild in the Streets’ Should Scare You, by J. Hoberman, September 30, 2016-A scurrilous political satire, “Wild in the Streets” opened in the spring of 1968 and played more or less continuously in drive-ins and grindhouse theaters throughout that convulsive election year. Opposition to the Vietnam War was reaching its height and, in the wake of the catastrophic Democratic convention in Chicago, Fortune magazine estimated that a million young Americans identified with Students for a Democratic Society and other manifestations of the “New Left.” “Wild in the Streets,” directed by Barry Shear from a script by Robert Thom (elaborating on his Esquire article “The Day It All Happened, Baby”) reflected, even as it satirized, a fearful fascination with the Kids. The movie industry calculated that more than half of its audience was under 25; in its own way, “Wild in the Streets” parodies Hollywood’s bemused efforts to reach younger viewers. Max Frost, a 22-year-old rock musician (Christopher Jones, star of the short-lived TV series “The Legend of Jesse James”), dupes a pandering, 37-year-old senator (Hal Holbrook, hair combed over his forehead in the style of Robert Kennedy’s) into supporting an amendment that would lower the voting age to 14. Benefiting from this newly enfranchised electorate, as well as a bit of LSD in the drinking water, Max himself takes power, putting everyone over 35 in New Age re-education camps. The perpetually smirking Mr. Jones offers an amusing impersonation of James Dean doing Hitler. But the movie’s high point is a scene where Diane Varsi, playing the most zonked member of Max’s entourage (which includes a young Richard Pryor), addresses Congress as if from the stage of the Fillmore. Wearing a bicorn hat and lazily shaking her tambourine, she giggles that “America’s greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag.” Although the movie’s pop-star-run-amok premise is similar to that of the British filmmaker Peter Watkins’s more sober “Privilege,” released in the United States during the summer of 1967, Mr. Thom might well have been inspired by the Doors singer Jim Morrison, who for several years had been performing “When the Music’s Over” with its cri de coeur ending: “We want the world and we want it… Nah-ow-OW!!!” “Wild in the Streets” would surely have been better scored by the Doors, but the film’s songs, mainly written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and performed by a studio band complete with a sound like Strawberry Alarm Clock, are not bad. (“The Shape of Things to Come” by the fake band Max Frost and the Troopers actually went to No. 22 in September 1968.) The reviews were also surprisingly good. Renata Adler, in The Times, called the movie “by far the best American film of the year so far,” and compared it, not altogether humorously, to “The Battle of Algiers.” In its cartoonish way, “Wild in the Streets” prophesied Yippie threats, student uprisings, China’s Red Guards and the Kent State massacre. Amid one crisis, Max’s devoted, smothering mother (Shelley Winters) declares her faith that her son must have “a very good reason for paralyzing the country,” anticipating the moment when the mother of the student leader Mark Rudd, a prominent figure in the occupation of Columbia University, fondly described him to Time magazine as “my son, the revolutionary.” “Wild in the Streets” may be an artifact of 1968, but its image of generational megalomania provides an ominous footnote to the current presidential election, which could be the last to be waged by two baby boomers.
He is a rapist and mentally and physically abused Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet). "Unfortunately, just a few weeks after she moved into the home, her ex-boyfriend, actor Christopher Jones - who claimed to have had an affair with Tate shortly before she was murdered - attacked and raped Hussey. In her memoir, she recalled how “we were talking and his eyes glazed over, and he punched me in the stomach”. Detailing further, she continued: “I didn’t know if he was going to kill me. My face was like a balloon. I had a bloody nose, my lip was split open, and I had a black eye. It was terrifying.” He was also cruel to his wife Susan Strassburg, "Jones later admitted to hitting Strasberg and accidentally discharging a shotgun in their apartment.The attack left Hussey pregnant, although she decided to have an abortion."
I picked up an album by Max Frost and the Troopers after reading about it in one of those psychedelic music compendium books. Though short, with just ten tracks, nine of them are very high end garage psych. It's a top 75 album of the 60's imo. It wasn't until 5-6 years after buying the album that I saw 'Wild In The Streets'. What a great, semi dark psych exploitation movie. Not sure I've ever seen Chris Jones again, but he's superb here as Max. After seeing the movie, I also picked up the official soundtrack and most of the songs overlap with the Max Frost LP though they are credited to The 13th Power on the soundtrack LP. There are a couple of exclusive tracks to both the soundtrack and the Max Frost LP so both are musts for me.
Christopher Jones was in another movie: Chubasco. Then here & there. Eventually retired from acting to become an artist. He had 7 children, was married 3 different times. Crossed over at age 72 from cancer. Look on Wikipedia Oh by the way he and Shelley Winters were very close friends
He was in a few movies: 3 in The Attic, The Looking Glass War and Ryan’s Daughter, to name a few. He was also in a TV series where he played Jesse James. After Ryan’s Daughter, he became disillusioned with the whole business and quit. Too bad for the rest of us, because I think that he was amazing as Max Frost, too, but probably much better for him to be able to use his creative and artistic talents in a healthier way.
11:10 Not 15 minutes, 18 minutes was the real duration on how long the Lusitania sunk.
The first and second funnels collapsed in the torpedo strike and second explosion.
DIABLO😮
7:00 A second explosion.
WAO TODOS LOS MÚSICOS DE PRIMERA CALIDAD....WAO
Mario Hernández uno de los mejores terceros
With a mom like Shelley Winters no wonder the youth revolution was a success. She had the best Mommy parts - Bloody Mama, Cleopatra Jones''s Mommy-mob boss, and Roseanne's grandmother. If she had finished her Poseidon trip i'm convinced there would be no war in Israel right now. There should be a posthumous Academy award for Scenery chewing and scene stealing.
Its hard core movie , the scene Shirley winters driving hitting a kid sitting front lawn killing him. That made her son the chemist/self made millionaire) hate her even more. Every 60s movie has chemist, (even 'my three sons) my three sons were total chemist. Ordinary intellectual looking 1960s suberban highschool lsd chemist. Ordinary corrupt human love' Deafheaven
Actually lusitania was torpedod by u 20 not u 39
4:05 Lusitania: directed by Michael Bay
Time capsule. Nixon won in nineteen sixty eight . LSD re-education camp ? Distopia?
I think I just saw the guy with the hook strumming a bass guitar?
Hee-hee, I noticed that, too 🙃 Quite a visual, even though he was supposedly a trumpeter 😳
About 10 years ago maybe longer Target had a commercial featuring one of the songs without the lyrics from W.I.TSs The movie when originally shown in movie theatres was on the movie screens for about 3 months After Target came out with the commercial a renewed interest came to be for this movie. First it was only available on VHS. Demand came in & the movie was then available on DVD but it took a very long time to come on DVD. Then finally came out on RUclips.
Christoher Jones had a strong resemblance to Dean Jones
I think you meant to type James Dean.
This is what the United States will turn into if POT/WEED/GRASS is Legalized
😂😅very funny.....
The fx animation and even the art direction of a black and white film honestly holds up really well!
I'm here because I heard radio talk show host Chris Plant talking about it comparing him to the current Idiot Congressman Max Frost from Fla. who wants to tear down the Statue of Liberty in support of all illegal aliens.
The guy with the hook hand is Joey Bishop's son.
1:18:23 Sen. Robert Kennedy clapping on the right. The election of Max Frost has changed history and Kennedy will live.
1:13:30 He's right...Republican. MAGA!
1:11:30 Why is this woman not in jail for vehicular manslaughter?
1:05:00 He is so right about how the Democrats see the negros. Democrat party created by slave holders for slave holders. Democrats created the KKK, the Jim Crow laws, segregated the south and the Federal Govt.
A lot of these kids were born during the war with no fathers in the home as they in the military.
58:30 She will never get the votes!!!
Let me guess...the first states for the 14 voting age after Calif was NY, Oregon, Md. Ill. N.J. Az. Col. and Wash. state and Wash, DC. All liberal sh!tholes.
41:30 Only this sh!t could start in Calif.
Chris Jones lived to 73.
16:39…Kevin Coughlin died when he was 30.
10:35 Thats 52% Baby Boomers. And to this day the Baby boomers are still the majority population because later generations are not reproducing as fast.
Thank you for providing this movie!
I cant believe that they wrecked that Rolls Royce. Looked like a Silver Cloud 2 or 3. Also that is Bobby Sherman @1:25:15
I doubt they really wrecked the Rolls on an AIP budget. They probably drove it as far off the road as they could without damaging it, laid it carefully on its side, pieced together stills and sped up the final product. They did apparently sacrifice an 8 year-old Chrysler, though.
I waited a long time to see this movie but it sucks and its boring!
I recognized future TV stars, Barry Williams of "Brady Bunch" and Kellie Flanagan from 1968-1970 TV series, "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".
I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1968 at the Chicago Opera House this movie brings back great memories the light show was fantastic the soft machine was the first group they were excellent
LOL like 52 percent is some great majority
All of a sudden the sound stops, after the senator 's son joins max and the next rally no sound. What's with that???
Definitely an absurdly humorous and truly entertaining 'Blast From The Past'.... 🤓 Hal Holbrook squaring-off with Chris Jones and the U.S. Senate Chamber scenes were indeed _"a slice of cinematic history"_ !!!! 🤣 And Shelley Winters' well-performed role as the "newly transformed" Flower Power People was absolutely Hilarious, too....🤪 The only thing left-out of this script was the Hari Krishnas inundating the Sunset Strip scenes, as certainly was the case in the late 1960s. 😵💫
55 years ago I saw this movie. It affected me the same way then as now. The voting age should go up! Only if you're in the military should you be able to vote under the age of 25!
Singamore
New York Times, ON DVD; Are You Over 35? ‘Wild in the Streets’ Should Scare You, by J. Hoberman, September 30, 2016-A scurrilous political satire, “Wild in the Streets” opened in the spring of 1968 and played more or less continuously in drive-ins and grindhouse theaters throughout that convulsive election year. Opposition to the Vietnam War was reaching its height and, in the wake of the catastrophic Democratic convention in Chicago, Fortune magazine estimated that a million young Americans identified with Students for a Democratic Society and other manifestations of the “New Left.” “Wild in the Streets,” directed by Barry Shear from a script by Robert Thom (elaborating on his Esquire article “The Day It All Happened, Baby”) reflected, even as it satirized, a fearful fascination with the Kids. The movie industry calculated that more than half of its audience was under 25; in its own way, “Wild in the Streets” parodies Hollywood’s bemused efforts to reach younger viewers. Max Frost, a 22-year-old rock musician (Christopher Jones, star of the short-lived TV series “The Legend of Jesse James”), dupes a pandering, 37-year-old senator (Hal Holbrook, hair combed over his forehead in the style of Robert Kennedy’s) into supporting an amendment that would lower the voting age to 14. Benefiting from this newly enfranchised electorate, as well as a bit of LSD in the drinking water, Max himself takes power, putting everyone over 35 in New Age re-education camps. The perpetually smirking Mr. Jones offers an amusing impersonation of James Dean doing Hitler. But the movie’s high point is a scene where Diane Varsi, playing the most zonked member of Max’s entourage (which includes a young Richard Pryor), addresses Congress as if from the stage of the Fillmore. Wearing a bicorn hat and lazily shaking her tambourine, she giggles that “America’s greatest contribution has been to teach the world that getting old is such a drag.” Although the movie’s pop-star-run-amok premise is similar to that of the British filmmaker Peter Watkins’s more sober “Privilege,” released in the United States during the summer of 1967, Mr. Thom might well have been inspired by the Doors singer Jim Morrison, who for several years had been performing “When the Music’s Over” with its cri de coeur ending: “We want the world and we want it… Nah-ow-OW!!!” “Wild in the Streets” would surely have been better scored by the Doors, but the film’s songs, mainly written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and performed by a studio band complete with a sound like Strawberry Alarm Clock, are not bad. (“The Shape of Things to Come” by the fake band Max Frost and the Troopers actually went to No. 22 in September 1968.) The reviews were also surprisingly good. Renata Adler, in The Times, called the movie “by far the best American film of the year so far,” and compared it, not altogether humorously, to “The Battle of Algiers.” In its cartoonish way, “Wild in the Streets” prophesied Yippie threats, student uprisings, China’s Red Guards and the Kent State massacre. Amid one crisis, Max’s devoted, smothering mother (Shelley Winters) declares her faith that her son must have “a very good reason for paralyzing the country,” anticipating the moment when the mother of the student leader Mark Rudd, a prominent figure in the occupation of Columbia University, fondly described him to Time magazine as “my son, the revolutionary.” “Wild in the Streets” may be an artifact of 1968, but its image of generational megalomania provides an ominous footnote to the current presidential election, which could be the last to be waged by two baby boomers.
He is a rapist and mentally and physically abused Olivia Hussey (Romeo and Juliet). "Unfortunately, just a few weeks after she moved into the home, her ex-boyfriend, actor Christopher Jones - who claimed to have had an affair with Tate shortly before she was murdered - attacked and raped Hussey. In her memoir, she recalled how “we were talking and his eyes glazed over, and he punched me in the stomach”. Detailing further, she continued: “I didn’t know if he was going to kill me. My face was like a balloon. I had a bloody nose, my lip was split open, and I had a black eye. It was terrifying.” He was also cruel to his wife Susan Strassburg, "Jones later admitted to hitting Strasberg and accidentally discharging a shotgun in their apartment.The attack left Hussey pregnant, although she decided to have an abortion."
The animation is so much better than any Disney movie today.
This looks like an early precursor to all those dystopian movies that followed in the 70s.
Wanted to see this when I was ten….
The first cartoon to deal with serious real world issues.
I picked up an album by Max Frost and the Troopers after reading about it in one of those psychedelic music compendium books. Though short, with just ten tracks, nine of them are very high end garage psych. It's a top 75 album of the 60's imo. It wasn't until 5-6 years after buying the album that I saw 'Wild In The Streets'. What a great, semi dark psych exploitation movie. Not sure I've ever seen Chris Jones again, but he's superb here as Max. After seeing the movie, I also picked up the official soundtrack and most of the songs overlap with the Max Frost LP though they are credited to The 13th Power on the soundtrack LP. There are a couple of exclusive tracks to both the soundtrack and the Max Frost LP so both are musts for me.
Christopher Jones was in another movie: Chubasco. Then here & there. Eventually retired from acting to become an artist. He had 7 children, was married 3 different times. Crossed over at age 72 from cancer. Look on Wikipedia Oh by the way he and Shelley Winters were very close friends
He was in a few movies: 3 in The Attic, The Looking Glass War and Ryan’s Daughter, to name a few. He was also in a TV series where he played Jesse James. After Ryan’s Daughter, he became disillusioned with the whole business and quit. Too bad for the rest of us, because I think that he was amazing as Max Frost, too, but probably much better for him to be able to use his creative and artistic talents in a healthier way.
Barry Williams
This movie is ahead of it's time! We are living this "Wild in the Streets" now...ANTIFA! BLM! JOE AND KAMAL-TOE!
classic. love it.
Original Punk music
Wow Richard Pryor on the drums!