Riot on Sunset Strip

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Riot on Sunset Strip a 1967 low-budget exploitation movie, released by American International Pictures, and filmed and released within six weeks of the actual late-1966 Sunset Strip curfew riot.

The movie starred Aldo Ray, Mimsy Farmer, Michael Evans, Anna Strasberg and Tim Rooney, and featured musical appearances by The Standells and The Chocolate Watchband.

Along with the attempt to capture the essence of the period around the Sunset Strip riot, a subplot of the movie revolves around a young girl (Farmer)'s troubled relationship with her divorced parents (Evans and Strasberg). Her dosage with LSD by a would-be seductor, the subsequent 'acid trip' she experiences, and her later discovery by Evans (a police sergeant) as the victim of gang rape, are among the movie's peak moments.

The movie is available mostly in bootleg editions and is airing on the Showtime Extreme and Flix cable networks this March.