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''Wild in the Streets'' is a 1968 film featuring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. It was produced by American International Pictures and based on a short story by writer Robert Thom. The movie, described as both "ludicrous" and "cautionary," was nominated for an Academy Award (for best film editing) and became a cult classic of the counterculture era. ==Background== ''Wild in the Streets'' was first released to theaters in 1968. Its storyline was a ''reductio ad absurdum'' projection of contemporary issues of the time, taken to extremes, and played poignantly during 1968 — an election year with many controversies (the Vietnam War, the draft, civil rights, the population explosion, rioting and assassinations, and the baby boomer generation coming of age). The original magazine short story, titled "The Day it All Happened, Baby!" was expanded by its author to book length, and was published as a paperback novel by Pyramid Books. The movie features cameos from several media personalities, including Melvin Belli, Dick Clark, Pamela Mason, Army Archerd, and Walter Winchell. Millie Perkins and Ed Begley have supporting roles, and Bobby Sherman interviews Max as president. In a pre-''Brady Bunch'' role, Barry Williams plays the teenaged Max Frost at the beginning of the movie. Child actress Kellie Flanagan, who plays Johnny Fergus' daughter, Mary, also appeared in director Barry Shear's TV-special ''All Things Bright and Beautiful'' in the same year. She discussed filming ''Wild in the Streets'' in a 2014 interview with Adam Gerace, telling him, "I get a huge kick out of ''Wild in the Streets'' and always have." A soundtrack album was also successful, and the song "Shape of Things to Come" (written by songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) and performed by the (fictional) band Max Frost and the Troopers, featured in the movie, became a No.22 hit on the US Billboard charts. ''Wild in the Streets'' was released on VHS home video in the late 1980s, and in 2005 appeared on DVD, on a twofer disc with another AIP movie, 1971's ''Gas-s-s-s''. According to filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, the part eventually played by Christopher Jones was first offered to folk singer Phil Ochs. After reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected the offer, claiming the story distorted the actual nature of the youth counterculture of the period. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wild in the Streets」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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