Mondo Mod

Beginning with the title song, "It's a Mod Mod World" by the Gretschmen, "Mondo Mod" explores West Hollywood, California's famous Sunset Strip in 1966. We journey from discotheques to dirt bike competitions, taking in surfing, karate, go-carting, the Hell's Angels, political protests, pot parties and all the other trappings of the Now Generation. Along the way, we're treated to priceless footage of Pandora's Box, Gazzarri's, the Whisky A Go-Go, the Fifth Estate, and countless other forgotten haunts of "the neon Neverland that the mod set calls home." Starring, according to the credits, "The Youth of the World," "Mondo Mod" features a pot-smoking, bongo-blasting finale during which these hipsters and flipsters start to strip down. Both the film's cinematographers became world-famous: Laszlo Kovacks for "Easy Rider," and Vilmos Szigmond for "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."

Genre(s) : Documentary,Music

Aka(s) :
(original title) - Mondo Mod
Australia - Teenage Outlaws
Japan - 世界禁断地帯(Japanese)
United States - Mondo Mod

Australia - Teenage Outlaws
Japan - 世界禁断地帯
United States - Mondo Mod

Actors :
Sam the SoulThe Inspirations Themselves (as Sam the SoulThe Inspirations)
The Group Themselves (as The Group)
Humble Harve Miller Self (Narrator) (as Humble Harve)
Midget Farrelly Self
Skipper Fats Self
Steve Gaines Self
Charlie Galento Self
Mike Haley Self
Paul Hunt Self
Cara Peters Don's LSD Trip Dancer
Walt Phillips Self
William Rotsler Don - Masked Interviewee LSD User
Butch Van Artsdalen Self (as Butch Van Artsdale)
Dewey Weber Self
Mike Weldon Self
Dave Willingham Self