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Pop Films and Youth Culture Movies
Pop Films and Youth Culture Movies
   






Revolution Jack O'Connell
Omicron
Ace of Cups, Herb Caen, Country Joe and the Fish, Louis Gottlieb, Daria Halprin, Dan Hicks
Kurt Hirschhorn, Today Malone, The Steve Miller Band, Tracy Nelson,
Mother Earth
Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rev. Cecil Williams


A documentary film of the late Sixties hippie lifestyle, featuring a day in the life of a blonde hippie called Today Malone, with the expected hallucinatory fantasies and free love nudity scenes. Excellent soundtrack.   
You Tube

 

Girl On A Motorcycle (Naked Under Leather) Jack Cardiff
Ares Productions / Mid-Atlantic Film Holdings / SNC
Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, Jean Leduc, Catherine Jourdan
Jacques Marin, André Maranne, Bari Jonson, Arnold Diamond, John G. Heller, Marika Rivera
Richard Blake, Chris Williams, Colin West, Kit Williams

Cult semi-porn Sixties culture film. A married woman visits her lover on her motorcycle, eventually crashing to her death while in the throes of a sexual reverie. Long series of still images. Very surreal. You Tube



Monterey Pop D. A. Pennebaker
The Foundation
Scott McKenzie, The Mamas and the Papas, Canned Heat, Larry Taylor, Hugh Masekela
Simon and Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, Grace Slick, Big Brother and The Holding Company
Janis Joplin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Country Joe and The Fish, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Booker T. & The M.G.s, Micky Dolenz, Brian Jones,
Laura Nyro, John Mitchell, Noel Redding, Johnny Rivers, Tom Smothers, Carol Wayne.

Documentary about the greatest pre-Woodstock pop festival
with original background music by Pete Townshend.   You Tube

 

Cream's Farewell Concert Tony Palmer
Distributed by Film Shows
Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton Patrick Allen (narrator)
Filmed on 26th November 1968 at The Royal Albert Hall for television. A documentary on, and the performance from, Cream's last concert. 'Farewell Concert' is the live recording of the final concert at the Royal Albert Hall on November 26th, 1968. The film incorporates pieces of six performances along with interviews with the band members themselves, showcasing their playing abilities. In 2005, a special extended edition of the concert appeared featuring full versions of all songs separated from the narration and interviews.    You Tube

The Touchables Robert Freeman
Film Designs Ltd.

Ester Anderson, David Anthony, Harry Baird, Joan Bakewell, Michael Chow, Roy Davies
William Dexter, Bruno Elrington, Peter Gordeno,
Danny Lynch, Judy Huxtable, John Ronane
Ricky Star
, Monika Ringwald (as Marilyn Rickard), Kathy Simmonds, Steve Viedor
James Villiers, Bryan Walsh, Simon Williams.

Pop-art youth culture film in which four swinging dolly birds in an inflatable dome kidnap a good-looking young pop star for fun - theirs! The theme music is by Nirvana and additional soundtrack music comes from Wynder K. Frog, The Ferris Wheel and Roy Redman. This is the only full feature film that Beatles photographer Robert Freeman directed.  You Tube

 

Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush Clive Donner
Giant Film Production
Barry Evans, Judy Geeson, Angela Scoular, Sheila White, Adrienne Posta, Vanessa Howard
Diane Keen, Moyra Fraser, Michael Bates, Roy Holder, Maxine Audley, Denholm Elliott
Christopher Timothy, Nicky Henson, Allan Warren, George Layton, Gareth Robinson
Oliver Cotton, Sally Avory, Andrew Hamilton, Erika Raffael, Cavan Kendall, Trevor Jones
Gillie Austin, Christopher Mitchell, Pauline Challoner, Mary Griffiths, Stella Kemball
Angela Pleasence, Marianne Stone.
One of the classic Swinging Sixties youth culture movies. Featured artists are The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Stevie Winwood and general pop music background.    You Tube



The Sweet Ride Harvey Hart
Euterpe / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Michael Sarrazin, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Franciosa, Bob Denver, Michele Carey
Michael Wilding, Lara Lindsay, Norma Crane, Percy Rodrigues, Warren Stevens
Pat Buttram, Michael Forest, Lloyd Gough, Stacy King, Corinna Tsopei, Charles Dierkop
Arthur Franz, Moby Grape, Lee Hazlewood

Late Sixties surf culture movie. Californian surf drop-outs and beachcombers with music by Moby Grape.   You Tube
 

Pop Down Fred Marshall
Fremar / New Realm

Diane Keen, Jane Bates, Andy Ellison, Carol Rachell, Nicole Yarna, Margaret Evans
Debbie Slater, Bill Aaron, Zoot Money, Tony Hicks, Brenton Wood, Fred Marshall


Psychedelic pop film with a sci-fi story line based around visiting aliens. Other musical contributions include Don Partridge, Blossom Toes, Luis Bonfa, Maria Toledo, Hetty Schneider, Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity,The Idle Race and Dantalion's Chariot.



Mini Weekend (The Tomcat) Georges Robin
Global / Tigon

Anthony Trent, Veronica Lang, Anna Palk, Liz Rogers, Connie Frazer, Karen Leslie-Lyttle
Nina Dwyer, Valerie Stanton, Eve Aubrey, Vicki Hodge, Jane MacIntosh, Patti Bryant
Avril Gaynor, Rosalind Elliot, Kathleen Southern, Maria Hauffer, Lucy Swain

Youth culture comedy drama made in black and white.   You Tube
 

Thirty Is A Dangerous Age, Cynthia Joseph McGrath
Columbia Pictures Corporation / Walter Shenson Productions

Dudley Moore, Eddie Foy Jr., Suzy Kendall, John Bird, Duncan Macrae, Patricia Routledge
Peter Bayliss, John Wells, Harry Towb, Ted Dicks Jr., Jonathan Routh, Nicky Henson
Clive Dunn, Frank Thornton, Derek Farr, Micheál MacLiammóir

Sixties culture movie. A shy nightclub pianist has girl trouble.   You Tube





Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter Saul Swimmer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer


Peter Noone, Karl Green, Keith Hopwood, Derek Leckenby, Sheila White, Barry Whitwam
Stanley Holloway, Mona Washbourne, Lance Percival Marjorie Rhodes, Sarah Caldwell
Hugh Futcher, Drewe Henley, John Sharp, Avis Bunnage, Nat Jackley, Billy Milton
Dermot Kelly, Tom Kempinski, Lynda Baron, Joan Hickson, Iris Sadler, Nan Munro
Pamela Cundell, Paul Farrell, Michelle Cook, James Myers, Margery Manners
Annette Crosbie, Rita Webb

Herman's Hermits star in this musical comedy about a group of musicians who inherit a racing dog. Herman (Noone) decides to enter the dog, named Mrs. Brown, in races and the group travel from Manchester to London in hopes of qualifying for a national invitational.

They find work as a pop group (wow!) and Herman falls in love with the girl next door. Besides the title tune, 'There's a Kind of Hush', 'The World Is for the Young', and 'The Most Beautiful Thing In My Life' are among featured songs.
    You Tube
 

Up The Junction Peter Collinson
BHE Films / Crasto

Suzy Kendall, Dennis Waterman, Maureen Lipman, Adrienne Posta, Liz Fraser, Linda Cole
Doreen Herrington, Jessie Robins, Barbara Archer, Ruby Head, Susan George
Sandra Williams, Michael Robbins, Alfie Bass, Michael Gothard, The Delecardos
Michael Standing, Aubrey Morris, Hylda Baker, Shaun Curry, Olwen Griffiths, Queenie Watts
Billy Murray, Lockwood West, Michael Barrington, Yvonne Manners, Harry Hutchinson
Larry Martyn, Derek Ware

A classic Sixties youth culture movie, based on a Nell Dunn novel. Polly, a Chelsea girl, attempts to forsake her upper-class roots and moves to working-class Clapham. She takes a factory job where she is confronted with various heavy issues including domestic violence, abortion, and the general downbeat life of the area.

Dennis Waterman plays Polly's Lambretta-riding boyfriend Peter. Brilliant, haunting, bluesy soundtrack by Manfred Mann.    You Tube




Head Bob Rafelson
Raybert Productions
The Monkees, Victor Mature, Annette Funicello, Timothy Carey, Jack Nicholson, Vito Scotti
Abraham Sofaer, Charles Macaulay, T.C. Jones, Carol Doda, Charles Irving, William Bagdad, Percy Helton, Sonny Liston, Ray Nitschke, Frank Zappa, June Fairchild, Teri Garr,
Mireille Machu, Terry Chambers, Mike Burns, Esther Shepard, Kristine Helstoski, Toni Basil
John Hoffman, Linda Weaver, Jim Hanley, Jon C. Andersen, Rona Barrett, John Brockman, Chelsea Brown, The Radio City Rockettes (archive), Dennis Hopper, Logan Ramsey,
John Dennis, Linda Haines, Bob Rafelson.
Youth culture fantasy musical documenting the somewhat zany 'life' of a Sixties pop group. 
You Tube

 

Sympathy For The Devil (One Plus One) Jean-Luc Godard
Cupid Productions
Sean Lynch (commentary voice), The Rolling Stones, Anne Wiazemsky, Iain Quarrier
Frankie Dymon, Danny Daniels, Illario Pedro, Roy Stewart, Linbert Spencer, Tommy Ansah
Michael McKay, Rudi Patterson, Mark Matthew, Karl Lewis, Bernard Boston, Nike Arrighi
Joanna David, Françoise Pascal, Monica Walters, Glenna Forster-Jones, Elizabeth Long
Jeannette Wild, Marianne Faithfull, Harry Douglas, Colin Cunningham, Anita Pallenberg
Graham Peet, Matthew Knox, Barbara Coleridge, James Fox, Nicky Hopkins, Clifton Jones.
Featuring a semi-documentary on the 'Sympathy For The Devil' production with revolutionary overtones using rock'n'roll as its basis, this is Godard's documentation of late 1960's western counter-culture. You Tube



The Doors: The Doors Are Open John Sheppard
Granada Television International

Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore

Documentary movie made for television and released on video in 1992. The film contains interviews, performance footage from a concert at London's 'Roundhouse' and music over newsreel footage of demonstration scenes. Performances include such classics as 'Light my Fire', 'The Unknown Soldier', 'Spanish Caravan' and 'When the Music's Over'.    You Tube
 

Finian's Rainbow Francis Ford Coppola
Warner Brothers / Seven Arts

Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Don Francks, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Hancock
Al Freeman Jr., Ronald Colby, Dolph Sweet, Wright King, Louil Silas

Musical fantasy film. No Sixties cultural significance, just pleasant, unassuming fun featuring 'Downtown' singer Pet Clark. You Tube

You Are What You Eat Barry Feinstein
Cerberus / Natoma
Paul Butterfield, David Crosby, Dave Dixon, John Herald, Barry McGuire, Rosko, Tiny Tim
Sharmagne Leland-St. John, John Simon, Peter Yarrow, Frank Zappa (archive footage)
Vito's Dancers, Marilyn Salisbury.
An irreverent 'underground' documentary, built around a prospective album soundtrack, about the various mid-Sixties cultures. Additional music and cameos come from Super Spade, The Electric Flag, John Simon, David Crosby and Harper's Bizarre. Cameo appearances from The Family Dog, The Mothers Of Invention, Ringo Starr and others. The director, Barry Feinstein, was also one of the leading album cover photographers of the Sixties.   You Tube

 

Joanna Michael Sarne
Laughlin
Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Calvin Lockhart, Donald Sutherland, Anthony Ainley
Glenna Forster-Jones, Geoffrey Morris, Michelle Cook, Manning Wilson, Clifton Jones
Dan Caulfield, Michael Chow, Fiona Lewis, Marda Vanne, Jane Bradbury, Edith MacArthur
Caroline Munro, Michael Sarne, David Scheuer, Carlos Baker, David Collings, John Gulliver
Jenny Hanley, Richard Hurndall, Sibylla Kay, Brenda Kempner, John Owens
Elizabeth MacLennan, Peter Porteous, Annette Robertson, Jayne Sofiano.

Swinging London culture. A girl art student comes to the big city to follow fashion design but doesn't make good.   You Tube



Yellow Submarine George Dunning
Apple Films / King Features Production / TVC London

Voices by: The Beatles (as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band), Lance Percival
Paul Angelis (narrator), John Clive, Dick Emery, Geoffrey Hughes, Peter Batten


Swinging Sixties culture cartoon fantasy featuring the music of The Beatles with their voices being 'done' by other artists.     You Tube
 

The Beatles Mod Odyssey George Dunning II / Heinz Edelmann
Tarot Associates Inc

George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, George Dunning (voice)
Heinz Edelmann (voice),

A short 7 minute promotional trailer film for 'Yellow Submarine'.   You Tube

Candy Christian Marquand
ABC / Corona Cinematografica Dear Film Produzione / Selmur Productions
Ewa Aulin, Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston, James Coburn
Walter Matthau, Ringo Starr, John Astin, Joey Forman, Enrico Maria Salerno, Fabian Dean
Elsa Martinelli, Sugar Ray Robinson, Anita Pallenberg, Lea Padovani, Florinda Bolkan
Marilù Tolo, Peter Dane, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Umberto Orsini, Neel Noorlag, Anthony Foutz
Enzo Fiermonte, , Peggy Nathan, Tom Keyes, Mark Salvage, Buck Henry, Micaela Pignatelli
Christian Marquand, Ragni Malcolmsson, Judith Malina.
Hippie culture psychedelic fantasy about a girl who can't say 'No' and a curious sequence of adventures.   You Tube  also see Bill Harry's Sixties


 

IF .... Lindsay Anderson
Memorial Enterprises
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster
Robert Swann, Hugh Thomas, Michael Cadman, Peter Sproule, Peter Jeffrey, Ben Aris
Anthony Nicholls, Arthur Lowe, Mary MacLeod, Mona Washbourne, Geoffrey Chater
Graham Crowden, Charles Lloyd Pack, Guy Ross, Robin Askwith, Richard Everett
Philip Bagenal, Nicholas Page, Robert Yetzes, David Griffin, Richard Ryan, Graham Sharman
Robin Davies, Brian Pettifer, Michael Newport, Charles Sturridge, Sean Bury, John Garrie
Martin Beaumont, Jean Alexander, Ellis Dale, Tommy Godfrey, Peter Jaques, Simon Ward.
Flashes of sixties culture in this surreal, all-time great, cult fantasy treatment of school life and, ultimately, pure anarchy.    You Tube



Performance Donald Cammell / Nicolas Roeg
Goodtimes Enterprises
James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michèle Breton, Ann Sidney, John Bindon
Stanley Meadows, Allan Cuthbertson, Anthony Morton, Johnny Shannon, Anthony Valentine
Kenneth Colley, John Sterland, Laraine Wickens, Reg Lye, Ian McShane, Billy Murray
Anthony Roye.
A vicious gangster moves in with a former pop idol. Songs include 'Gone Dead Train' by Randy Newman, 'Dyed Dyed Red' by Buffy Sainte-Marie, 'Memo From Turner' by Mick Jagger, 'Wake Up Niggers' by Last Poets, 'Performance' and 'Poor White Hound' by Merry Clayton. Filmed in 1968 but not actually released until 1970.    You Tube   also see Bill Harry's Sixties

 

For Singles Only Arthur Dreifuss
Four-Leaf Productions
John Saxon, Mary Ann Mobley, Lana Wood, Peter Mark Richman, Ann Elder, Chris Noel
Marty Ingels, Hortense Petra, Charles Robinson, Duke Hobbie, The Walter Wanderley Trio
Talya Ferro, Leslie McRay, The Lewis & Clarke Expedition, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Milton Berle, The Sunshine Company, Dick Castle, Norma Foster, Maria Korda, Dita Nicole
The Cal Tjader Band, Angelique Pettyjohn, Norman Wells.

Musical comedy about two girls who move into a California singles apartment where all the occupants seem to be setting their sights on the building manager.    You Tube

Work Is A Four Letter Word Peter Hall
Cavalcade Films
David Warner, Cilla Black, Zia Mohyeddin, David Waller, Elizabeth Spriggs, Alan Howard
Jan Holden, Tony Church, Joe Gladwin, Julie May, Derek Royle, John Steiner, Cyril Cross
Clifford Rose, Paul Dawkins.

British futuristic industrial fantasy comedy where everyone is employed by the ultra-modern DICE Corporation but Valentine Brose would rather stay home to tend his psychedelic mushrooms. However, his bedroom is too small and his fiancee Betty wants him to settle down, so he seeks a job in DICE's boiler-room, a suitable environment to grow his mushrooms. Based on Henry Livings’ award-winning play Eh?   You Tube
 

Psych-Out Richard Rush
Dick Clark Enterprises
Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke, Max Julien
Henry Jaglom, Linda Gaye Scott, I. J. Jefferson, Tommy Flanders, Ken Scott, Garry Marshall
Geoffrey Stevens, Susan Bushman, John 'Bud' Cardos.
Hippie/flower power culture musical. 'Taste a moment of madness . . . listen to the sound of purple. Come where the pleasure is'. A hippie band 'adopts' a deaf runaway girl who comes to Los Angeles to try and find her missing brother after receiving a postcard from him saying 'God is alive and well and living in a sugar cube'. Music is by The Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Seeds.   You Tube






The Stones Rock And Roll Circus Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Production company unknown

Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Jesse Ed Davis, Gary Gilmore, Chuck Blackwell
Marianne Faithfull, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, John Mitchell, Yoko Ono
Ivry Gitlis, Nicky Hopkins, Kwasi Dzidzornu (as Rocky Dijon), The Nurses, Julius Katchen
Julian Lennon, Donyale Luna, Milton Reid


Filmed for television at the Wembley International Studios on 11th December 1968 but never released in its entirety at the time
as Mick Jagger was reputedly unhappy with the quality.
The circus acts were supplied by Sir Robert Fossett's circus, including a fire-eater and trapeze artists.

There was, originally, a curious interlude involving Mick Jagger and Keith Richard in a knife-throwing act.

It was subjected to post-production in the UK and USA between 1989 and 1995 and released as a 65 minute video in 1996 by ABKCO Films in the USA For those of you who missed it, hard luck - it was on UK television on December 26th 2004 - just after midnight!
    You Tube
 


The Committee Peter Sykes
Craytic

Arthur Brown, Jimmy Gardner, Paul Jones, Tom Kempinski, Robert Langdon Lloyd
Pauline Munro


British independent Black-and-white film noir film. It featured original music by Pink Floyd as well as 'Nightmare' by The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown.   You Tube
 

Wonderwall Joe Massot
Alan Clore Films / Compton Films

Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Irene Handl, Richard Wattis, Iain Quarrier, Beatrix Lehmann
Brian Walsh, Sean Lynch, Bee Duffell, Noel Trevarthen, Suki Potier, Anita Pallenberg

Swinging Sixties youth culture 'psychedelia' film with sexual overtones. The music is by George Harrison.   You Tube   also see Bill Harry's Sixties
Two A Penny James F. Collier
World Wide Pictures
Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers, Ann Holloway, Geoffrey Bayldon, Peter Barkworth
Donald Bisset, Edward Evans, Mona Washbourne, Tina Packer, Earl Cameron, Noel Davis
Nigel Goodwin, Billy Graham, Charles Lloyd Pack, Richard Vanstone, Warwick Sims
Rudi Patterson, John Watson, Jo Rowbottom, Daphne Riggs, Barbara Bruce, Doreen Keogh
Norman Mitchell.

An art student and frustrated pop star lives with his mother, a receptionist for a psychiatrist who is experimenting with psychedelic drugs. The student, to make money quickly, begins to work at the doctor's office as a pretence in order to steal and sell the drugs. 4 original songs.   You Tube
 





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