Ben Mankiewicz Intro - Riot On Sunset Strip (1967)

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) -- (Trailer)

With inflammatory language, and without finished graphics, from producer Sam Katzman, the trailer for his feature exploiting the 1966 Los Angeles “curfew riots,” featuring stars Aldo Ray and Mimsy Farmer, also bands The Standells and The Chocolate Watchband, from Riot On Sunset Strip, 1967.

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Invasion Of Longhairs

First scene for top-billed Aldo Ray as LA cop Lorimer, reasonable but not satisfying reporter Stokes (Bill Baldwin), then grumbling with pal Tweedy (Michael Evans), before we glimpse his unspecified link to Andy (Mimsy Farmer), hanging with pals at a dicey joint, in Riot On Sunset Strip, 1967.

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Night Out With The Weirdos

Predatory hippie Herby (Schuyler Hayden), disappointed that virtuous Andy (Mimsy Farmer) has declined the acid-laced sugar cubes, resorts to a trick, while her friend Liz-Ann (Laurie Mock) gets into it, and tripping begins, in quickie-producer Sam Katzman’s Riot On Sunset Strip, 1967.

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Another Troubled Weekend

Andy (Mimsy Farmer) with her inebriate mom (Hortense Petra, wife of producer Sam Katzman), whom she dared not call when she got arrested, then watching her estranged police officer father (Aldo Ray) on TV, then back to the club, Larry Tamblyn leading The Standells with another original tune, in Riot On Sunset Strip, 1967.

Riot On Sunset Strip (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Open, These Are Not Dangerous Revolutionaries

Framing from producer Sam Katzman, including exteriors of the real Pandora’s Box, center of the LA “curfew riots” on which the movie is sort-of based, cutting to The Standells, with an original co-written by guitarist Tony Valentino, drummer Dick Dodd on the vocal, opening Riot On Sunset Strip, 1967, starring Aldo Ray.