From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, many middle aged producers tried to make movies about the emerging counter culture" and most of them failed miserably. They simply could not understand what was going.
Since only a relatively small segment young people in a just few of the largest cities (LA, San Francisco, New York) really understood the profound social changes that were beginning to occur, the movie producers could put almost anything on film and their audiences across the rest of the USA would believe it.
"Riot on Sunset Strip" is a low budget piece of trash and anyone today who watches it should be warned ... "The 60s was NOT like this."
If you want to know what the 60s were all about, I recommend "Woodstock," "Alice's Restaurant," and the very best - "Easy Rider."
Since only a relatively small segment young people in a just few of the largest cities (LA, San Francisco, New York) really understood the profound social changes that were beginning to occur, the movie producers could put almost anything on film and their audiences across the rest of the USA would believe it.
"Riot on Sunset Strip" is a low budget piece of trash and anyone today who watches it should be warned ... "The 60s was NOT like this."
If you want to know what the 60s were all about, I recommend "Woodstock," "Alice's Restaurant," and the very best - "Easy Rider."