90001_23991_01
1970
Trailer for "The Strawberry Statement", directed by Stuart Hagmann, starring Bruce Davison, Kim Darby and Bud Cort. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1970. "The Strawberry Statement" is a 1970 cult film about the counterculture and student revolts of the 1960s, loosely based on the non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen about the Columbia University protests of 1968. Trailer opens with Bruce Davison taking a strawberry from a punnet/basket and eating it. Davison and Cort in a row boat. Cort wears a megaphone. Davison shooting with a hand held camera. He leaps on and rolls around with Darby who is watching a Zeotrope. Davison and Darby ride in a Gravitron. Students chanting at a sit in in a basketball court/gym. Riot police wearing masks, spraying gas, dragging and beating protestors.