Wild in the Streets/Gas-s-s-s
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Actor: Barry Shear, Christopher Jones, Shelley WintersBrand: MGM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 175 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of Wild in the Streets/Gas-s-s-s
Movie Review: Max Frost for President
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're under 30, you'll love seeing Wild in the Streets. If you're over 30, you'll be lining up at the LSD water coolers at your local "retirement camp" and dancing in circles with the rest of the "senior citizens".
I first saw this film when I was still a junior high school student. It was broadcast on a local television channel at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning. My parents had told how much they enjoyed it during its original release in 1968, so they let me stay up late to watch it.
Afterwards I understood why this film was a major success for AIP at the time. Christopher Jones should've starred in a biopic about James Dean. Shelley Winters is perfectly cast as Max's horrible mother. Hal Holbrook is very fine and believable as the naive liberal senator who thinks he can keep Max Frost under his thumb. The music is memorable, esp. "The Shape of Things to Come". (I was lucky enough to acquire the original soundtrack on vinyl years ago. Best instrumental track: "Shelley in Camp".)
The plot is incredible, the visuals often chilling -- Max's black-uniformed "age police" with peace sign armbands recall Chairman Mao's Red Guards during the 1966-76 Chinese Cultural Revolution -- and you couldn't ask for a better twist ending.
A few questions, though:
Is it really possible to dose an entire city's water supply with LSD? Seems dubious. Maybe Max & Co. had access to some extra-powerful acid or something. (In early scenes we see Max as a teenage chemist in his family's basement, mixing up a new batch of LSD.) Wouldn't dosing everyone in D.C. with psychedelic drugs qualify as a "terrorist attack" maybe? How many of the over-30 crowd would really go quietly to those concentration camps? Wouldn't at least the able-bodied folks in their 30s to 50s grab any available firearms, igniting a civil war between the generations? (The only one we see doing this is Shelley Winters.) Maybe I've given this too much thought...? Oh well.
Those questions aside, Wild in the Streets is a highly enjoyable example of late-Sixties psychedelia and political satire.
So be sure to see this movie -- and be sure to vote for Max Frost for President in 2012! You'll be very happy in the camps.
Summary of Wild in the Streets/Gas-s-s-s
Synopsis:Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 02/15/05
Wide Screen: yes
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
LanguageENGLISH
Foreign Film: no
Subtitlesno
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: no
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve Please note: This supplier will be closed on 11/24, 11/25, 12/26, 1/2 for the holidays. The shipping cut off is 12/10 to try and have the products delivered by Christmas.
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