Wild in the Streets (1968) on Netflix
Rock star Max Frost backs a Senate candidate who wants the voting age lowered to eighteen. He surprises the candidate's televised rally by calling for fourteen instead.
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Max Frost, born Max Jacob Flatow, Jr., is a wealthy twenty-two-year-old rock star who has broken with his parents, among them his mother Daphne Flatow, and lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with the members of his band, the Troopers. The group includes his girlfriend Sally LeRoy, a former child actress, and Billy Cage, a fifteen-year-old law graduate who handles his business. Max lends his name to Johnny Fergus, a congressman running for a California Senate seat on a promise to lower the voting age to eighteen. When Max sings at a televised Fergus rally, he departs from the script and asks that fourteen-year-olds get the vote.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wild in the Streets (1968)
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- The whole picture was shot and finished in 20 days, and its central fantasy was not far from the news: lowering the voting age was a live argument in 1968, settled by Oregon v. Mitchell in 1970 and the 26th Amendment in 1971.
- The role of teen demagogue Max Frost, which went to Christopher Jones, was first offered to folk singer Phil Ochs. According to filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, Ochs read the screenplay and turned it down, saying it distorted the real nature of the youth counterculture.
- The film's invented band had a real hit. "Shape of Things to Come", written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil and credited to the fictional Max Frost and the Troopers, reached No. 22 on Billboard in 1968, while the soundtrack album climbed to No. 12.
