Mondo Hollywood (1967)

Long considered a cult classic Mondo Hollywood captures the underside of Hollywood by documenting a moment in time 196567 when an inquisitive trust in the unknown was paramount hope for the future was tangible and life was worth living on the fringe An interior monologue narrative approach is used throughout the film where each principal person shown not only decided on what they wanted to be filmed doing but also narrated their own scenes The film opens with Gypsy Boots the original hippie vegan desert hopping blender salesman and stripper Jennie Lee working out Watusistyle beneath the Hollywood sign leading into the sustainable community insight of Lewis Beach Marvin III the SampH Green Stamp heir who lived in a 10 a month garage while owning a mountain retreat in Malibu