WILD IN THE STREETS

WILD IN THE STREETS
   Film (1968). AIP. Dir Barry Shear, starring Christopher Jones, Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Millie Perkins, Hal Holbrook, Richard Pryor. Screenplay Robert Thom. 97 mins. Colour.
   Holbrook is the Kennedy-style Californian senator who, when he realizes that, through demographic shift, half the population are under 25, enlists a rock star (Jones, looking like James Dean) to help sway the youth vote. The strategy backfires when thesenator's quid pro quo of lowering the voting age (it is eventually 14) allows the rock star himself to become president; in an act of revenge against his awful mother (Winters) he then consigns all the over-35s to concentration-camp retirement homes where they are force-fed LSD. The film's LSD-in-the-water-supply sequence created a stir at the time, and inspired some real-life imitations. The tongue-in-cheek script - the hippy sections badly dated - is still good, especially the finale where the subteens are fomenting further revolution.
   PN/JB
   See also: CINEMA.

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