Riot on Sunset Strip


Film poster

Directed by: Arthur Dreifuss
Written by: Orville H. Hampton
Produced by: Sam Katzman
Starring: Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Tim Rooney
Cinematography: Paul Vogel
Edited by: Ben Lewis
Music by: Fred Karger
Distributed by American International Pictures

Release date: March 1, 1967
Running time: 87 minutes

Riot on Sunset Strip is a 1967 counterculture-era exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures. It was filmed and released within four months of the late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riots.

The film stars Frank Alesia, Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg, Laurie Mock, Gene Kirkwood, Tim Rooney, and features musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watch Band. Earlier that year, Farmer, Mock and Kirkwood appeared in Hot Rods to Hell, where Farmer portrayed the bad girl and Mock a vulnerable virgin. In this film, they switched characters.

The film attempts to capture the essence of the period around the Sunset Strip riot, and also adds a subplot that revolves around a young girl's troubled relationship with her divorced parents. Her dosage with LSD by a would-be seducer, the subsequent 'acid trip' she experiences, and her later discovery by a police sergeant as the victim of gang rape, are among the movie's peak moments.

The film is now available on DVD through the MGM Limited Edition Collection.

Production notes

"Riot on Sunset Strip", a classic song in the genre of garage punk, was written for the film by Tony Valentino and John Fleck of the Standells.

The film was made for MGM but they could not move fast enough to release it so Katzman sold it to American International Pictures.

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The Standells - Riot on Sunset Strip

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From the opening of the classic American International Pictures film "Riot on Sunset Strip".

The Chocolate Watch Band "Don't Need Your Lovin'"

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The Chocolate Watch Band : Don't Need Your Lovin'

From the film "Riot on sunset strip" (1967).


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Schuyler Hayden (1941-1978)
Actor • Producer

Schuyler Hayden was born on 11 September 1941 in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Rat Fink (1965), Riot on Sunset Strip (1967) and Alcoa Premiere (1961). He was married to Annie Post. He died on 25 September 1978 in San Diego, California, USA.

Fred Karger (1916-1979)
Music Department • Composer • Actor

Fred Karger was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is known for From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). He was married to Elizabeth Derrick, Jane Wyman and Patti Sacks. He died on August 5, 1979 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Born February 13, 1916
Died August 5, 1979 (63)