What follows are some stream of consciousness adventures, like a concert at a drive-in where Country Joe and the Fish (Joe’s name here is AM Radio and he can speak with the voice of God, who sounds like an old Jewish man) play, a game of golf with some bikers and some sleeping around but it’s all cool because this is the future of the hippies and everyone is chill with one another.įinally, they find a peaceful commune, but a football team attacks. On the way, they meet Marissa (Cindy Williams, Shirley from TV’s Laverne & Shirley, as well as The Conversation and American Graffiti), Carlos (Ben Vereen), Hooper (Bud Cort) and Coralee (Talia Shire, billed here as Talia Coppola). As a Nazi-esque police force is running Dallas, they decide to run toward Mexico. Two hippies, Coel and Cilla, fall in love. The army was in charge of a gas that killed everyone over the age of 25 and it is accidentally released.Ĭut to Southern Methodist University, where the news is all over campus. The film opens with an animated sequence where the end of the world is overseen by a John Wayne-sounding general. The shot that he felt was one of the greatest he had made in his life ended up on the cutting room floor.
In particular, he was enraged that they’d removed what he saw as the end of the movie - a shot where God looked over 300 extras and commented on the action. Why? Turns out Corman was unhappy to the cuts made to the film (AIP and Corman had a handshake agreement that he would have final cut).
And it would be the last film he’d helm for nearly twenty years, too. Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It would be the last movie that Roger Corman would direct for AIP.
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