RUN OR FIGHT Soundtrack



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Wild in the Streets
Directed byBarry Shear
Produced bySamuel Z. Arkoff
James H. Nicholson
Written byRobert Thom
Based onshort story 'The Day It All Happened, Baby!' by Robert Thom
StarringChristopher Jones
Shelley Winters
Richard Pryor
Diane Varsi
Hal Holbrook
Narrated byPaul Frees (uncredited)
Music byLes Baxter
CinematographyRichard Moore
Edited byFred R. Feitshans Jr.
Eve Newman
Distributed byAmerican International Pictures
Release date
Running time
97 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$700,000[1]
Box office$4,000,000 (rentals)[2]

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Wild in the Streets is a 1968 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Based on the short story 'The Day It All Happened, Baby!' by Robert Thom, it was distributed by American International Pictures. The film, described as both 'ludicrous' and 'cautionary', was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and became a cult classic of the 1960s counterculture.

Plot[edit]

Popular rock singer and aspiring revolutionary Max Frost (Christopher Jones) was born Max Jacob Flatow Jr. His first public act of violence was blowing up his family's new car. Frost's band, the Troopers, live together with him, their women, and others, in a sprawling Beverly Hills mansion. The band includes his 15-year-old genius attorney Billy Cage (Kevin Coughlin) on lead guitar, ex-child actor and girlfriend Sally LeRoy (Diane Varsi) on keyboards, hook-handed Abraham Salteen (Larry Bishop) on bass guitar and trumpet, and anthropologist Stanley X (Richard Pryor) on drums. Max's band performs a song noting that 52% of the population is 25 or younger, making young people the majority in the country.

When Max is asked to sing at a televised political rally by Kennedyesque Senate candidate Johnny Fergus (Hal Holbrook), who is running on a platform to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, he and the Troopers appear – but Max stuns everyone by calling instead for the voting age to become 14, then finishes the show with an improvised song, 'Fourteen or Fight!', and a call for a demonstration. Max's fans – and other young people, by the thousands – stir to action, and within 24 hours protests have begun in cities around the United States. Fergus's advisors want him to denounce Max, but instead he agrees to support the demonstrations, and change his campaign – if Max and his group will compromise, accept a voting age of 15 instead, abide by the law, and appeal to the demonstrators to go home peaceably. Max agrees, and the two appear together on television – and in person the next day, using the less offensive mantra 'Fifteen and Ready'.

Most states agree to lower the voting age within days, in the wake of the demonstrations, and Max Frost and the Troopers campaign for Johnny Fergus until the election, which he wins by a landslide. Taking his place in the Senate, Fergus wishes Frost and his people would now just go away, but instead they get involved with Washington politics. When a Congressman from Sally LeRoy's home district dies suddenly, the band enters her in the special election that follows, and Sally – the eldest of the group, and the only one of majority age to run for office – is voted into Congress by the new teen bloc.

The first bill Sally introduces is a constitutional amendment to lower the age requirements for national political office to 14, and 'Fourteen or Fight!' enters a new phase. A joint session of Congress is called, and the Troopers – now joined by Fergus's son, Jimmy (Michael Margotta) – swing the vote their way by spiking the Washington, D.C. water supply with LSD, and providing all the Senators and Representatives with teenaged escorts.

As teens either take over or threaten the reins of government, the 'Old Guard' (those over 40) turn to Max to run for president, and assert his (their) control over the changing tide. Max again agrees, running as a Republican to his chagrin, but once in office, he turns the tide on his older supporters. Thirty becomes a mandatory retirement age, while those over 35 are rounded up, sent to 're-education camps', and permanently dosed on LSD. Fergus unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Max by contacting his estranged parents (Bert Freed and Shelley Winters), then tries to assassinate him. Failing at this, he flees Washington, D.C. with his remaining family, but they are soon rounded up.

With youth now in control of the United States, politically as well as economically, similar revolutions break out in all the world's major countries. Max withdraws the military from around the world (turning them instead into de facto 'age police'), puts computers and prodigies in charge of the gross national product, ships surplus grain for free to Third World nations, disbands the FBI and Secret Service, and becomes the leader of 'the most truly hedonistic society the world has ever known'.

Ultimately however, Max and his cohorts may face future intergenerational warfare from an unexpected source: pre-teen children. When a young girl finds out Max's age (which is now 24), she sneers, 'That's old!' Later, after Max kills a crawdad that was a pet to several young kids, then mocks their youth and powerlessness, one of the kids resolves, 'We're gonna put everybody over 10 out of business.'

Cast[edit]

  • Shelley Winters as Mrs. Max Flatow (Frost)
  • Christopher Jones as Max Jacob Flatow Jr., a.k.a. Max Frost
  • Diane Varsi as Sally LeRoy
  • Hal Holbrook as Senator Fergus
  • Millie Perkins as Mrs. Fergus
  • Richard Pryor as Stanley X
  • Bert Freed as Max Jacob Flatow Sr.
  • Kevin Coughlin as Billy Cage
  • Larry Bishop as the Hook
  • Michael Margotta as Jimmy Fergus
  • Ed Begley as Senator Allbright
  • May Ishihara as Fuji Elly
  • Salli Sachse as hippie mother
  • Kellie Flanagan as young Mary Fergus
  • Don Wyndham as Joseph Fergus

Production notes[edit]

The film was shot in 15 days.[1]

Lowering the voting age was a genuine issue in 1968 and was not passed until 1970 with Oregon v. Mitchell lowering the presidential minimum voting age to 18 and 1971 with the 26th Amendment lowering local and state election minimum voting ages to 18.

The movie features cameos from several media personalities, including Melvin Belli, Dick Clark, Pamela Mason, Army Archerd, and Walter Winchell. Millie Perkins and Ed Begley have supporting roles, and Bobby Sherman interviews Max as president. In a pre-Brady Bunch role, Barry Williams plays the teenaged Max Frost at the beginning of the movie. Child actress Kellie Flanagan, who plays Johnny Fergus's daughter Mary appeared in director Barry Shear's television special All Things Bright and Beautiful in the same year. She discussed filming Wild in the Streets in a 2014 interview with Adam Gerace, telling him 'I get a huge kick out of Wild in the Streets and always have.'[3]

According to filmmaker Kenneth Bowser, the part eventually played by Christopher Jones was offered to folk singer Phil Ochs. After reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected the offer, claiming the story distorted the actual nature of the youth counterculture of the period.[4]

Music[edit]

A soundtrack album was released on Tower Records and became successful, peaking at #12 on the Billboard charts. Taken from the soundtrack and film, 'Shape of Things to Come' (written by songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) and performed by the fictional band Max Frost and the Troopers, was released as a single (backed with 'Free Lovin' ') and became a hit, reaching #22 on Billboard.

Release[edit]

Wild in the Streets was released in theaters in 1968.[5] Its plot was a reductio ad absurdum projection of contemporary issues of the time, taken to extremes, and played poignantly during 1968 —an election year with many controversies (the Vietnam War, the draft, civil rights, the population explosion, rioting and assassinations, and the baby boomer generation coming of age).[6] The original magazine short story, titled 'The Day It All Happened, Baby!' was expanded by its author to book length, and was published as a paperback novel by Pyramid Books.

In 1969, Fred R. Feitshans Jr. and Eve Newman were both nominated for the Oscar for Best Film Editing for their work on this film.

Wild in the Streets was released on VHS in the late 1980s, and in 2005 appeared on DVD, on a Midnite Movies disc with 1971's Gas-s-s-s.

In popular culture[edit]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century, page 43, panels 1–2: 'I mean that the current president of the United States is Max Foster. Max Foster the pop singer. He's setting up camps for anyone he thinks is too straight. It's hippy fascism.' This is a reference to Wild in the Streets in which singer Max Frost becomes president and has everyone over 35 sent to 're-education camps'. Max Foster is an analogue of American president Richard Nixon.

See also[edit]

  • Prez (1973), a DC Comics series about the first teenage president of the United States

References[edit]

  1. ^ abMark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p260
  2. ^'Big Rental Films of 1968,' Variety, 8 January 1969, pg 15.
  3. ^Gerace, Adam. '...And Then I Wrote'. AdamGerace.com. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
  4. ^'Panel Discussions on Comic Related' (Interview). Archived from the original on 2011-08-24. Retrieved 2011-07-27.
  5. ^American Film Institute (1976). The American Film Institute Catalog: Feature Films 1961–1970, Part 2. CA, USA: University of California Press. p. 38. ISBN0-520-20970-2. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
  6. ^Ebert, Roger (20 May 1968). 'WILD IN THE STREETS'. RogerEbert.com. Chicago Sun-Times.

External links[edit]

  • Wild in the Streets on IMDb
  • Wild in the Streets at AllMovie
  • Wild in the Streets at the TCM Movie Database
  • Wild in the Streets at the American Film Institute Catalog
  • Wild in the Streets at Rotten Tomatoes
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Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack album to Kill Bill: Volume 1 by
ReleasedSeptember 23, 2003
GenreSoundtrack
Length47:02
LabelA Band Apart, Maverick, Warner Bros.
ProducerThe RZA
Quentin Tarantino
Lawrence Bender
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Professional ratings
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SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
IGN(8.0/10)[2]
StylusA−[3]

Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack is the soundtrack to the first volume of the two-part Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill. Released on September 23, 2003, it reached #45 on the Billboard 200 album chart and #1 on the soundtracks chart. It was organized, and mostly produced and orchestrated by RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.

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Soundtrack development[edit]

In a 2003 Interview, RZA spoke about the soundtrack's creation process:

It was more of a collaboration. He had an idea and a vision when he wrote the script. I think I was more of somebody that kept it in the guidelines of what he wanted. He was like, here go the eggs, the milk, the cake, the sugar, everything, and I’m going to stir it up. Put this in the oven, watch it, take it out in forty-five minutes. Now, am I going to take it out in forty five minutes or am I going to fall asleep? I made sure it got out and if I saw something wrong with it, I fixed it. So when he saw it, he was like, this is cake. There was one situation where you see, 'Crane and White Lightning.' That’s part of the original score, so it’s not really a song. A lot of that stuff is what I use to keep the vibe going between songs.
'Crane and White Lightning' is a piece of music that Quentin wanted on the soundtrack, but was originally set for a Metallica track. There’s only one piece of music that I didn’t feel comfortable with when we were done. We lost a sample, I made one Hip Hop beat. I was like I gotta throw one in there. Quentin loved this beat. We rocked with it and it was one of the first things we did. I could've gotten away with it. It was a sample, but so undetectable. So unnoticeable. I wanted to take a chance, but in the movie business you can’t take those kind of chances. I wouldn’t risk nobody else. If it was my movie, I would have taken a chance. But this is Quentin Tarantino’s movie.[4]

Track listing[edit]

  1. 'Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)' by Nancy Sinatra – 2:40
  2. 'That Certain Female' by Charlie Feathers – 3:02
  3. 'The Grand Duel (Parte Prima)' by Luis Bacalov – 3:24
  4. 'Twisted Nerve' by Bernard Herrmann – 1:27
  5. 'Queen of the Crime Council' dialogue by Lucy Liu and Julie Dreyfus – 0:56
  6. 'Ode To Oren Ishii' by The RZA – 2:05
  7. 'Run Fay Run' (from 'Three Tough Guys') by Isaac Hayes – 2:46
  8. 'Green Hornet' by Al Hirt – 2:18
  9. 'Battle Without Honor or Humanity' (from 'Another Battle') by Tomoyasu Hotei – 2:28
  10. 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood / Esmeralda Suite' by Santa Esmeralda featuring Leroy Gómez – 10:29
  11. 'Woo Hoo' by The 5.6.7.8's – 1:59
  12. 'Crane / White Lightning' by The RZA / Charles Bernstein – 1:37
  13. 'The Flower of Carnage' 修羅の花 (from 'Lady Snowblood') by Meiko Kaji – 3:52
  14. 'The Lonely Shepherd' by James Last & Gheorghe Zamfir – 4:20
  15. 'You're My Wicked Life' dialogue by David Carradine, Julie Dreyfus and Uma Thurman – 1:14
  16. 'Ironside' (excerpt) by Quincy Jones – 0:16
  17. 'Super 16' (excerpt) by Neu! – 1:06
  18. 'Yakuza Oren 1' by The RZA – 0:22
  19. 'Banister Fight' by The RZA – 0:21
  20. 'Flip Sting' (SFX) – 0:04
  21. 'Sword Swings' (SFX) – 0:05
  22. 'Axe Throws' (SFX) – 0:11

The last three are merely noises that occur as sound effects in the film. The vinyl record version includes only the first fifteen tracks.

Also not included[edit]

Numerous tracks used in the film and to advertise it were not included in the soundtrack album:

The Good Fight Soundtrack

  • 'Seven Notes in Black' by Vince Tempera – From Sette note in nero ('Seven Notes in Black'; AKA The Psychic). Heard when The Bride awakens and fends off her would-be rapists; background music for the RZA's 'Ode to O-ren'
  • 'Truck Turner Theme' by Isaac Hayes – heard, appropriately enough, when The Bride tracks down Buck's truck.
  • 'Music Box Dancer' by Frank Mills - heard when the Bride pulls up to Vernita Green's house.
  • 'A Long Day of Vengeance' by Armando Trovaioli – From I lunghi giorni della vendetta. Heard in the anime sequence after one of Boss Matsumoto's men murders O-Ren's father.
  • 'Kaifuku Suru Kizu (The Wound That Heals)' by Lily Chou-Chou – From the film All About Lily Chou-Chou. Heard when The Bride marvels at Hattori Hanzo's sword collection.
  • 'I'm Blue' and 'I Walk Like Jayne Mansfield' – additional songs performed by the 5.6.7.8's in the House of Blue Leaves.
  • 'From Man to Man' from the Death Rides a Horse soundtrack by Ennio Morricone – heard in the House of Blue Leaves battle. Used prominently to advertise Kill Bill.
  • 'Kenka Karate Kyokushin Ken Opening Theme' – heard in the house of Blue Leaves when the bride fights the boss of the crazy 88s.
  • 'Nobody but Me' by The Human Beinz – heard in the House of Blue Leaves battle.
  • 'Police Check Point' by Harry Betts (from the film Black Mama White Mama) – heard briefly in the House of Blue Leaves battle.
  • 'Yagyu Conspiracy' by Toshiaki Tsushima (from Shogun's Samurai) – background music for 'You're My Wicked Life'
  • 'Funky Fanfare' by Keith Mansfield – heard as the logo music for the Our Feature Presentation film snipe.
  • 'I Giorni Dell'Ira' by Riz Ortolani (from Day of Anger) – heard when The Bride plucks an eye from one of the Crazy 88. This track would be later used in Django Unchained, where it was included in the soundtrack.
  • 'Champions of Death' by Shunsuke Kikuchi (from Champion of Death) – heard in the House of Blue Leaves battle.
  • Other brief clips are not included nor are credits as to who wrote or performed them available.
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Certifications[edit]

RUN OR FIGHT Soundtrack
RegionCertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[5]Gold35,000^
Belgium (BEA)[6]Gold25,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[7]Gold50,000^
France (SNEP)[8]2× Gold200,000*
Greece (IFPI Greece)[9]Gold10,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[10]Gold20,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[11]Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA)[13]Gold502,000[12]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

References[edit]

  1. ^Thomas, Stephen (September 23, 2003). 'Allmusic review'. Allmusic.com. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  2. ^D., Spence. 'Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack'. IGN. Archived from the original on August 31, 2011. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
  3. ^Faust, Edwin. 'Various Artists: Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack'. Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on February 5, 2010. Retrieved April 9, 2010.
  4. ^Sherron Shabazz. '2003/10 KILL BILL VOL 1: An Interview with RZA'. Wuforever.com. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  5. ^'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2005 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on August 10, 2020.
  6. ^'Ultratop − Goud en Platina – albums 2006'. Ultratop. Hung Medien.
  7. ^'Canadian album certifications – Var – Kill Bill vol 1'. Music Canada.
  8. ^'French album certifications – Var – Kill Bill vol 1' (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique.
  9. ^'Greek album certifications – O.S.T. – Kill Bill vol 1' (in Greek). IFPI Greece. Retrieved April 29, 2020.
  10. ^'The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Var; 'Kill Bill vol 1')'. IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.
  11. ^'British album certifications – Var – Kill Bill vol 1'. British Phonographic Industry.Select albums in the Format field.Select Gold in the Certification field.Type Kill Bill vol 1 in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
  12. ^Donahue, Ann (September 5, 2009). 'The Billboard Q&A: Quentin'. Billboard. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
  13. ^'American album certifications – Soundtrack – Kill Bill Vol. 1'. Recording Industry Association of America.If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
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