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Wild in the Streets (1968) Facts
| Director(s) | Barry Shear |
| Producer(s) | Burt Topper, Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson, William J. Immerman |
| Featured Cast | Shelley Winters, Diane Varsi, Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins, Dick Clark |
| Total Facts | 3 |
"The Shape of Things to Come", written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, was a #22 chart hit for Max Frost and the Troopers (a "studio group", made up of session musicians) in 1968. In 2006, it was featured in commercials for Target Stores.
Christopher Jones's singing was dubbed by Singer Harley Hatcher a.k.a. Paul Wibier.
American International Pictures originally offered the role of Max Frost to noted folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs, who was known at the time to want to branch out into film work. However, after reading the screenplay, Ochs rejected it, stating the story presented the youth counterculture of the 1960s in a badly distorted light.