From teen exploitation wizard, producer Sam Katzman, The Love-Ins gleefully rips off Timothy Leary, the Haight-Ashburyhippie movement and everything in sight, in the story of straight-laced professor Jonathan Barnett (Richard Todd) who becomes something of a cult figure and guru to a mob of impressionable college kids.
It all ends in tears though, when – after seducing student Patricia Cross (Susan Olivier) – he is killed by her boyfriend, Larry (James MacArthur).
Straining at the leash to be ‘hip’, the film espouses the use of LSD and takes snide digs at such middle-class symbols as the police, university presidents and bourgeois parents.
It also features music by the Chocolate Watch Band, The UFOs, New Age and Donnie Brooks. Watch out for the psychedelic ballet inspired by Alice In Wonderland and a cameo by talk show host Joe Pyne.
Dr Jonathan Barnett
Richard Todd Patricia Cross
Susan Olivier Larry Osborne
James MacArthur Elliott
Mark Goddard Harriet
Carol Booth Mario
Marc Cavell Lamelle
Janee Michelle Bobby
Ronnie Eckstein Rev. Spencer
Michael Evans Mrs Sacaccio
Hortense Petra Mr Henning
Jimmy Lloyd The Chocolate Watchband
Themselves The UFOs
Themselves The NewAge
Themselves Joe Pyne
Himself
Director
Arthur Dreifuss
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