A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.A Marine on leave from Vietnam becomes involved with hippies, communes and drug-running.
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- TriviaPortions of the film were shot on a two camera 3-D system developed by the cinematographer Bob Sherry. Richard Crawford's creative concept was to heighten the reality of Vietnam by shooting all action war sequences in 3-D and color. The "other world" reality of the US was shot flat and in black and white.
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60's hippie anti-Vietnam pic re-emerges
One of the more bizarre curio's from the 60's indie underground film movement is about to re-emerge on the scene. After nearly 3 decades of legal wrangling, Director Crawford unveiled his pic at the American Cinemateque in Hollywood as part of the Cinemateque's MODS AND ROCKERS film series. The film is more interesting as sociology than as a successful film, however. Real hippies, real drugs, real sex and real psychedelic rock 'n roll mark the pic as an archeological find of the era in which it was made.
The title is rather meaningless (it just "sounded" counter-culture to the director), but the passion about the conflicted society, the free sex, drugs and anti-war movement are not. Amazingly, the film has a number of hallmarks of EASY RIDER, but because of the botched distribution, nobody has ever heard of CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE. The performances are real - because that was WHO the "actors" really were for the most part. This is one of those films that tells you more about an era than most documentaries, newspaper articles and, certainly, all the Hollywood product of the time. Not because it necessarily is very "good", but because it's so small scale that it can't help but be genuine and real (the filmmakers didn't "know" anything else, so they just shot what they saw and heard around them; This is opposed to "Establishment" types who tried to ape and filter their opinions and observations and manufacture a reality).
The title is rather meaningless (it just "sounded" counter-culture to the director), but the passion about the conflicted society, the free sex, drugs and anti-war movement are not. Amazingly, the film has a number of hallmarks of EASY RIDER, but because of the botched distribution, nobody has ever heard of CAPTAIN MILKSHAKE. The performances are real - because that was WHO the "actors" really were for the most part. This is one of those films that tells you more about an era than most documentaries, newspaper articles and, certainly, all the Hollywood product of the time. Not because it necessarily is very "good", but because it's so small scale that it can't help but be genuine and real (the filmmakers didn't "know" anything else, so they just shot what they saw and heard around them; This is opposed to "Establishment" types who tried to ape and filter their opinions and observations and manufacture a reality).
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- gortx
- Jul 6, 2001
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- Vietnam Fallen Hero
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- Lemon Grove, California, USA(Rodeo Room Bar, now demolished)
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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