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The Love-Ins

The Love-Ins

  • Status: Released
  • 26-07-1967
  • Runtime: 91 min
  • Score: 3.8
  • Vote count: 4

A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his position in solidarity with two expelled hippie students.

Richard Todd

Dr. Jonathan Barnett

James MacArthur

Larry Osborne

Susan Oliver

Patricia Cross

Mark Goddard

Elliott

Carol Booth

Harriet Henning

Marc Cavell

Mario

Janee Michelle

Lamelle (as Janeé Michelle)

Ronnie Eckstine

Bobby

Michael Evans

Rev. Spencer

Hortense Petra

Mrs. Sacaccio

Jimmy Lloyd

Mr. Henning

Mario Roccuzzo

Hippie on LSD

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Reporter in Park

Richard Hoyt

Reporter

Anthony Eustrel

Citizen (uncredited)

Gary Busey

Hippie with Loudspeaker (uncredited)

Mel Novak

Intern Smith

Donnie Brooks

Specialty Act

Bill Baldwin

Reporter (uncredited)

Frank Coghlan Jr.

Reporter in Park (uncredited)

George DeNormand

Policeman (uncredited)

Paul Hampton

American Football Player in Park (uncredited)

Clegg Hoyt

Policeman in Park (uncredited)

Richard Hoyt

Reporter (uncredited)

Mitchell Rhein

Man in TV Audience (uncredited)

Robert R. Stephenson

Policeman (uncredited)

Dick Winslow

Policeman (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

This is sort of worth it for the last fifteen minutes, but otherwise it's a pretty awful waste of our time and their efforts - such as they are. James MacArthur and Patricia Oliver are being disciplined by their university for the school rag publishing material just a bit to close to the bone for the principal. In protest, Richard Todd ("Dr. Barnett") quits and is soon a spokesman for their free love style existence. Initially, he holds to his liberté, égalité, fraternité existence but the adulation and success, as well as a little romantic attention from his erstwhile student gradually corrupts his soul and soon someone is heading for a fall. It's really only at the end of this film, that we get anywhere near a point to it all. The proof that absolute power (or a variation thereof, in this case) corrupts absolutely - even those with the most benign intentions. Todd is hopeless, however - he really is a fish out fo water; MacArthur and Oliver are just too preppy and cute to evoke any sort of passion for what they are trying to achieve - indeed the whole "niceness" of the first flower-power, anti-establishment 75 minutes is quite hard to sit through. The censors rejected it... I can't think why?