MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN

a Fred Weintraub Family Production

Produced by Francois Reichenbach and Tom Donahue

Directed by Francois Reichenbach

If it’s debatable that rock ’n’ roll has fallen on evil days, nobody but the most masochistic charisma-hound could deny that rock ’n’ roll movies have degenerated to the point that they can only get better or repeat themselves in their present nadirs until nobody attends at all. It’s too saddening to even mention things like Woodstock and Let It Be in the same breath with real r&r movies like Rock Around the Clock or High School Confidential or even a Joey Dee & the Starliters quickie from the height of the Twist phase; but if you dozed through Woodstock and walked out on the Beatles film and the Mad Dogs mess, as I did, then you have absolutely got to see Medicine Ball Caravan, the celluloid log of a trip across the States undertaken last year by a battalion of 154 San Francisco hippies in a train of Keseybuses, the whole thing financed and duly recorded by Warner Brothers.