Riot on Sunset Strip

Director: Arthur Dreifuss Arthur Dreifuss

Overview

In this drama set during the real life riots of the mid-1960s, an LA police sergeant attempts to service the Strip businessmen who object to the hippie youths that hang out, by setting a curfew. Unfortunately, the cop also believes that the kids have a right to be there, until he discovers that his estranged daughter, whom his drunken ex-wife took away from him, has come back to LA and has joined the counter-culture crowd.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/21/2011
UPC:	0883904243991
Original Release:	1967
Source:	Mgm Mod
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	39,599

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mimsy Farmer	Andy
Aldo Ray	Lieutenant Walt Lorimer
Michael Evans	Sgt. Tweedy
Laurie Mock	Liz-Ann
Tim Rooney	Grady
Gene Kirkwood	Flip
Hortense Petra	Marge
Anna Mizrahi	Helen Tweedy
Schuyler Hayden	Herby
Dick Winslow	Curtis
Bill Baldwin Sr.	Stokes
Tony Benson	Donnie
Jim Lefebvre	Sergeant
Al Ferrara	Actor
Pat Renella	Perry
Forrest Lewis	Aynsley
George E. Carey	Arnow
Frank Alesia	Joel
Deborah Travis	Herself
John Hart	Pritchard
Bill Baldwin	Actor
Freddy Karger	Composer

Technical Credits

Orville Hampton

Arthur Dreifuss	Director
Sam Katzman	Producer
Orville Hampton	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

This hopelessly dated and square youthquake drama from American International Pictures was released just months after the real riots on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard to protest the police harassment of younger patrons of the Strip's nightlife. Veteran B director Arthur Dreifuss, then in his late sixties, and scribe Orville H. Hampton (no spring chicken himself), show no comprehension of or affinity for youth culture whatsoever, and their work here is flat and clichéd. The actors do what they can with the material. Aldo Ray, sliding slowly into the twilight of his career, is typically gruff as the understanding police chief, while Mimsy Farmer offers another overripe portrayal of a virginal teen-turned-damaged goods at the hands of scurvy counterculture types (see also Devil's Angels). Exploitation aficionados will find some easy laughs with the stiff dialogue and performances, but the film will be of primary interest to vintage garage rock fans, as such notable outfits as the Chocolate Watchband and the Standells are prominently featured both onscreen and on the soundtrack.

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