Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)

American International Pictures
Directed by Arthur Dreifuss
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, MGM Limited Edition Collection)

Hollywood "long hairs" congregate on the Sunset Strip much to the chagrin of local businesses. They go to Pandora's Box and dance to The Standells and The Chocolate Watch Band who perform several songs. Innocent teen Mimsy Farmer is invited to a "freak out" party where she is slipped some LSD in her diet drink and gang raped upstairs. Her free-form dance after taking the drug is an all-time camp classic. Aldo Ray is her estranged father and head of the police department. Their reconcilement leads to many melodramatic moments. The "riot" in the title never happens.

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