Wild in the Streets is a 1968 American dystopian comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook and Shelley Winters.

Most states agree to lower the voting age within days, in the wake of the demonstrations, and Max Frost and the Troopers campaign for Johnny Fergus until the election, which he wins by a landslide.

When a Congressman from Sally LeRoy's home district suddenly dies, the band enters her in the special election that follows, and Sally—the eldest of the group, and the only one of majority age to run for office—is voted into Congress by the new teen bloc.

A joint session of Congress is called, and the Troopers—now joined by Fergus's son, Jimmy—swing the vote their way by spiking the Washington, D.C., water supply with LSD, and providing all the Senators and Representatives with teenage escorts.

As teens either take over or threaten the reins of government, the "Old Guard" (those over 40) turn to Max to run for president, and assert his (their) control of the changing tide.

The movie features cameos from several media personalities, including Melvin Belli, Dick Clark, Pamela Mason, Army Archerd, and Walter Winchell.

Child actress Kellie Flanagan, who plays Johnny Fergus's daughter Mary appeared in director Barry Shear's television special All Things Bright and Beautiful in the same year.

Taken from the soundtrack and film, "Shape of Things to Come" (written by songwriters Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil) and performed by the fictional band Max Frost and the Troopers, was released as a single (backed with "Free Lovin' ") and became a hit, reaching No.

[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times unfavorably compared Wild in the Streets to Privilege (1967), another film that dealt with politics driving the worship of pop idols.

[8] Its plot was a reductio ad absurdum projection of contemporary issues of the time, taken to extremes, and played poignantly during 1968 – an election year with many controversies (the Vietnam War, the draft, civil rights, the population explosion, rioting and assassinations, and the baby boomer generation coming of age).