Jenny, a deaf runaway who has just arrived in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to find her long-lost brother, a mysterious bearded sculptor known around town as The Seeker. She falls in with a psychedelic band, Mumblin' Jim, whose members include Stoney, Ben, and Elwood. They hide her from the fuzz in their crash pad, a Victorian house crowded with love beads and necking couples. Mumblin' Jim's truth-seeking friend Dave considers the band's pursuit of success "playing games," but he agrees to help Jennie anyway.
Acting
Nicholson's Stoney is proto-Jack — all eyebrows and dangerous charisma.
Production
Genuine Haight-Ashbury locations before the Summer of Love curdled.
Score
Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Storybook — actual bands, not studio hacks.
Director
Richard Rush
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Susan Strasberg was 30 playing a teenager; Dean Stockwell was 32. The 'youth' movement had mortgage payments.
Released months after the Diggers declared the Haight 'dead' — this is the exploitation funeral, not the revolution. Dick Clark produced it. Yes, that Dick Clark.
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