The Trip (1967) on Netflix
A television commercial director named Paul Groves is going through a divorce from his wife, Sally. He takes LSD for the first time, with a guide named John beside him.
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Paul Groves directs television commercials. He takes his first dose of LSD while he is going through a divorce from his wife, Sally, and the heartbreak that comes with it. He begins the trip with a guide named John, then fear takes over and he leaves John behind. He drifts through nightclubs on the Sunset Strip and into the homes of strangers and acquaintances, turning over what commercialism, sex and women mean to him. A young woman named Glenn, interested in people who take LSD, has been watching out for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Trip (1967)
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- Roger Corman did research for The Trip by taking LSD himself while scouting locations at Big Sur, noting he was under strict medical supervision with a stenographer recording what happened, and said the film would not be unsympathetic to the drug.
- For the topless scene at the Bead Game club, filmed in an actual Los Angeles establishment, assistant director Paul Rapp admitted passing hundreds of amyl nitrate poppers around the dancing extras to get their energy up to a pitch.
- Peter Fonda's agents warned him against taking the lead in The Trip because of his bad public reputation with drugs, including a recent marijuana arrest, but he was adamant and performed for a reduced salary.
- The National Association of Broadcasters advised TV stations against running ads for The Trip, and Britain's BBFC refused the film a certificate four times, rejecting it in 1967, 1971 and 1980 and again for video in 1988, before an uncut DVD in 2004.
- American International Pictures added an opening pre-credit monologue warning of LSD's dangers and a "shattered glass" effect over Fonda's face in the final shot; Corman was upset, believing the ending should have been left ambiguous.
- Peter Fonda said the "judgment scene" cut from the film had a bikini-clad woman explaining how to cook a turkey before flashes of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and later aluminium boxes holding bodies from Vietnam; censors made them remove it all.
- The house with the indoor/outdoor pool where Peter Fonda's character takes his LSD trip, on Blue Heights Drive near Laurel Canyon, was then occupied by Arthur Lee of the band Love, whose psychedelic decor Corman barely had to add to.
- The Electric Flag's soundtrack for The Trip features some of the earliest use of the Moog synthesizer on a pop or rock record.
