Medium Cool (1969) (The Concrete Wilderness)

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Directed by

Haskell Wexler

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Robert Forster
John Cassellis

Verna Bloom
Eileen

Peter Bonerz
Gus

Marianna Hill
Ruth

Sid McCoy
Frank Baker

Marrian Walters
Social Worker

Beverly Younger
Rich Lady

Peter Boyle
Gun Clinic Manager

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Description: Medium Cool is an almost impossible oddity: director Haskel Wexler wanted to shoot a fictional, narrative film wherein actors mingled with real people in an uncontrolled social environment. With that in mind, he began filming a movie about racial tensions in Chicago during the weeks prior to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, on the assumption that there would be a riot there. Then he brought his cast, crew, and camera to the scene of the proposed mayhem, and waited. . . and lo and behold, civil disorder broke out. It's intensely strange to see actors, playing characters, interacting in a real-life situation with real cops ... (more)

Release date: 6 February 1970
UPC: 097360690743

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