Riot on Sunset Strip is 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 riots. It’s big promise was to let you meet “the hippies… the teeny-boppers in their too-tight capris… and the pot partygoers”
Today the film, widely held to be one of the 100 worst American movies ever made, mercifully exists mostly in bootleg copies. The curfew riots on which the film is distantly based would also have been forgotten except for the intervention of Stephen Stills, then of the Buffalo Springfield, and his song celebrating the riots, “For What It’s Worth (Stop, Children, What’s That Sound?).” For what it’s worth, this song is currently ranked #63 on Rolling Stone’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
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