“Taste a moment of madness – Listen to the sound of purple”
This movie delved into the psychedelic scene as deaf runaway Jenny Davis (Susan Strasberg) hitches to San Francisco to find missing freaked-out psycho-sibling Steve (Bruce Dern), who think’s he’s Jesus Christ.
She’s taken under the wing of well-meaning hippie musician Stoney (Jack Nicholson) who gives her a guided tour of the Haight-Ashbury scene in the Summer of Love.
As a relic of the flower-power era, this takes some beating – and some watching, too – but Nicholson completists should get a buzz from seeing him as a rock musician and as the film’s romantic lead.
Jenny Davis
Susan Strasberg Dave
Dean Stockwell Stoney
Jack Nicholson Steve Davis
Bruce Dern Ben
Adam Roarke Elwood
Max Julien Warren
Henry Jaglom Pandora
I J Jefferson Lynn
Linda G. Scott Wesley
Tommy Flanders Preacher
Ken Scott Greg
Geoffrey Stevens Arthur
Robert Kelljan The Strawberry Alarm Clock
Themselves The Seeds
Themselves Jimi Hendrix
Himself
Director
Richard Rush
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