Modern Jazz Review

Like the previous year’s Wild In The Streets, Psych Out! (1968) was an attempt by Hollywood to understand the hordes of flower children cluttering up Sunset Strip, with their dirty hair, ludicrous pants and crazy ideas about the Vietnam War. And like its predecessor, it would do little to reassure parents and politicians that psychedelia was just an […]

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Barry Shear carved out a career as a TV journeyman, guest directing on many high-rating US series during the 60s and 70s including Man From U.N.C.L.E, Ironside, Alias Smith & Jones and McCloud. Wild In The Streets (1968) was one of his rare gigs for Hollywood, a prime cut of teen-market exploitation that proves to […]

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