For other uses, see Wild in the Streets (disambiguation).
Wild in the Streets
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown
Directed by
Barry Shear
Written by
Robert Thom
Based on
short story "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom
Produced by
Samuel Z. Arkoff
James H. Nicholson
Starring
Shelley Winters
Christopher Jones
Diane Varsi
Hal Holbrook
Millie Perkins
Richard Pryor
Bert Freed
Kevin Coughlin
Larry Bishop
Ed Begley
Narrated by
Paul Frees (uncredited)
Cinematography
Richard Moore
Edited by
Fred R. Feitshans Jr.
Eve Newman
Music by
Les Baxter
Distributed by
American International Pictures
Release date
May 29, 1968 (1968-05-29)
Running time
97 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$700,000[1]
Box office
$4,000,000 (rentals)[2]
Wild in the Streets is a 1968 American dystopian 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.
^Mark McGee, Faster and Furiouser: The Revised and Fattened Fable of American International Pictures, McFarland, 1996 p260
^"Big Rental Films of 1968," Variety, 8 January 1969, pg 15.
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