Essentially, this is just a remake of the original. The location switched form London to Chicago, but the main storyline is just the same.
It suffered in the same way as the original whereby the cast of students was too old for the parts they played: Christian Payton (31), Dana Eskelson (31), Bernadette Speakes (29).
The drugs, knives, guns, gangs, pimping and prostitution was dealt with in an almost dismissive way, as though it was normal.
The best part of the film was at the start, in London when Judy Geeson and Lulu reprised their roles in the original. After that it was all down hill.
How the title song was not a hit in the UK I will never know.
It was the B side to "Let's Pretend" but I remember it getting considerable air-time on pirate radio in 1967.
It reached No 1 in the USA.
It suffered in the same way as the original whereby the cast of students was too old for the parts they played: Christian Payton (31), Dana Eskelson (31), Bernadette Speakes (29).
The drugs, knives, guns, gangs, pimping and prostitution was dealt with in an almost dismissive way, as though it was normal.
The best part of the film was at the start, in London when Judy Geeson and Lulu reprised their roles in the original. After that it was all down hill.
How the title song was not a hit in the UK I will never know.
It was the B side to "Let's Pretend" but I remember it getting considerable air-time on pirate radio in 1967.
It reached No 1 in the USA.