An engagingly oddball sports documentary that's as much about community as it is about competition.
Wild in the Streets
If you're thirty, you're through!
1968 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Barry Shear
Overview
Musician Max Frost lends his backing to a Senate candidate who wants to give 18-year-olds the right to vote, but he takes things a step further than expected. Inspired by their hero's words, Max's fans pressure their leaders into extending the vote to citizens as young as 15. Max and his followers capitalize on their might by bringing new issues to the fore, but, drunk on power, they soon take generational warfare to terrible extremes.
Director and cast
- Barry Shear Director
- Shelley Winters as Mrs. Daphne Flatow
- Christopher Jones as Max Jacob 'Frost' Flatow Jr.
- Diane Varsi as Sally LeRoy
- Hal Holbrook as Sen. Johnny Fergus
- Millie Perkins as Mary Fergus
- Richard Pryor as Stanley X
- Bert Freed as Max Jacob Flatow Sr.
- Kevin Coughlin as Billy Cage
- Larry Bishop as The Hook, Abraham
- Michael Margotta as Jimmy Fergus
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