Does anyone recall the late 60s movie "Wild in the Streets?"

[darkstar]

(I realize this is more Lounge in content, but assuming the “no politics” would apply.)

Anyhow, the current youngest member of congress is Maxwell Frost of AZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_members_of_the_United_States_Congress

In the movie, a rock star turned politician named Max Frost becomes the youngest person to become president after serving first as either representative or senator (can’t remember which.)

I simply find it a strange curiosity. That’s it.

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[murielm99]

1. I remember it.

I saw it. It is sort of a curiosity piece these days. It is dated.

[darkstar]

2. Oh no doubt about it!

Putting folks out to pasture at 30 years of age in LSD camps. Whacky!

[LiberalArkie]

12. I do not think they would be that gracious now.

[StarryNite]

3. I remember it.

[milestogo]

4. Wow I didn't know there was an Ed Begley before Ed Begley Junior!

[John1956PA]

5. I remember the tragic character portrayed by Shelly Winters.

The tag line was, "Don't trust anybody over thirty."

The last scene put a spin on the tagline.

[PatSeg]

7. One with the young kids?

Christopher Jones is getting close to 30 and the kids were plotting their revenge after he steps on their frog (I think it was frog). It's been many years so I don't remember it too well now

[John1956PA]

10. The kid's remark stuck with me all these years after I watched the movie.

The movie was shown on CBS as one of its late night movies in the early 1970s. The kid put an ironic twist on the tagline.

Another post-apocalyptic movie shown by CBS in that late night time slot during that era was "The Earth, the Flesh and the Devil" from the early 1960s.

[PatSeg]

15. Wild in the Streets is available on Amazon Prime now

I may check it out, though I'm quite sure it did not age very well.

I couldn't find "The Earth, the Flesh and the Devil". Was it "The World, the Flesh, and the Devil" with Harry Belafonte? I don't think I ever saw that.

[John1956PA]

16. Yes. That is the movie I was thinking of. Harry Belafonte was one of a small group of nuclear Armageddon survivors.

Either his character or one of the other survivors was trying to act humorously by pretending to have a conversation with a mannequin.

That CBS late night movie slot from the early seventies featured some little known, but interesting, movies.

[PatSeg]

17. I have always been such a movie buff,

that I am often surprised when I come across a movie I hadn't seen. I put it in my watch list. Thanks!

[John1956PA]

18. Here is short rundown I got from AI when I asked about the CBS Late Movie presentations of the early 1970s:

From AI:

The CBS Late Movie in 1972 aired a variety of films, including older classics and newer releases, with specific dates showing movies like A Patch of Blue, The Anniversary, Twilight of Honor, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Damned, An American in Paris, The Sandpiper, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, and The Green Slime, often cycling through genres like horror, drama, and comedy across different weekday slots.

I watched most of the movies listed above when they were aired on CBS Late Movie.

One which startled me was "The Next Voice You Hear . . " (1950) which aired on Christmas Night 1972. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis (before she married Ronald Reagan).

Thanks for chatting about old movies.

[PatSeg]

19. You're welcome

I do remember "The Next Voice You Hear" and that was another very unusual movie.

[PatSeg]

6. Oh, I remember that movie well

It has stuck with me all these years. Very strange and rather original.

[Mister Ed]

8. A pretty silly movie, I guess. But I liked the song.

I was only eleven, and I didn't see the movie. But I liked the single: "The Shape Of Things To Come", by Max Frost and the Troopers.

Interesting that we now have a young congressional representative named Max Frost.

[gilligan]

9. Pretty silly but

Great song written by Garland Jeffreys and also has Richard Pryor in it.

[rampartd]

11. here is the "hit song"

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[LiberalArkie]

13. I was 20 when it came out... We had hope back then.

[rickford66]

14. One of three movies I ever went alone.

The other two, The Silent Partner and Knives Out.