Films
The Flower Thief
Director: Ron Rice
Starring: Taylor Mead, Barry Clark, Heinz Ellsworth, Linda Evanoff, Ella Henry, Bob Kaufman
Year: 1960
Runtime: 70 mins.
Synopsis: Warhol superstar in training Taylor Mead traipses with elfin glee through a lost San Francisco of smoke-stuffed North Beach cafés, oceanside fairgrounds, and collapsed post-industrial ruins. Boinging along an improvised picaresque up and down the city’s hills, Mead teases playground schoolkids, sniffs wildflowers, gets abducted by cowboys in the park, and has a tea party on a pile of rubble with a potbellied bathing beauty. (from Ed Halter review)
DVD: None
Official Website: None
Reviews: Village Voice (Ed Halter)
TV Guide (unknown)
Underground Film Timeline: 1960 — 1969
Video: None
[...] cinema, Murphy instead writes about Christopher Maclaine‘s The End and Ron Rice‘s The Flower Thief, both of which were, coincidentally or not, made in San Francisco in the late ’50s and early [...]