Director Richard Crawford generated this profoundly-felt protest film about a young Marine called Paul (Geoff Gage) on emergency leave from Vietnam falling in love with Melissa (Andrea Cagan), an anti-war militant hippie girl, in and around real San Diego locations.
Shot in a mixture of monochrome and Technicolor, replete with a necessary dosage of hallucinatory effects, the movie soon got lost in litigation and went unseen for 20 years.
Real hippies, real drugs, real sex and real psychedelic rock ‘n roll mark the pic as a valuable time capsule of the era.
Paul
Geoff Gage Melissa
Andrea Cagan Thesp
David Korn Anchovy
Ron Barca Evelyn
Evelyn King Mrs Fredericks
Belle Greer Mrs Randolph
Joanne Moore Jordan Mrs Hamilton
Darlene Conley Uncle Jimson
James Ashton Cabby
Stuart Lancaster Frank
Bob Reece Kip
Kip Winsett Border Guards
Hal Neilsen
James Hourigan Mr Toliver
Wally Starr Loose George
George Driver Dr Haskell
Richard Morrill
Director
Richard Crawford
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