Musical Mutiny (1970)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Barry Mahon directed this rather strange documentary/promotional film about a bunch of free concerts at Pirate World. Various hippies are brought together for a free concert by Iron Butterfly but it doesn't take long for a mutiny to break out.
Mahon is a filmmaker that I've spent the last year going through his filmmography. He could make horror movies, nudie pictures, sexploitation and just about any sort of low-budget movie. Towards the end of his career he even got into kid movies and most of them took place at Pirate World where the filmmaker worked. This film was one of two musicals that he made and it's certainly not a "good" movie but it's mildly interesting to fans of bad movies.
Iron Butterfly isn't one of my favorite bands so seeing them and hearing their music really didn't add any entertainment for me. At the same time it was pretty fun seeing Mahon try to sell them. The film's biggest problem is that it really doesn't feature any sort of story but instead it's just a bunch of padding around the music. There are really boring scenes of people just walking around doing nothing. There are boring scenes inside the amusement part, which makes the film more of a promo than anything else.
If you're a Mahon nut like I am then you might want to check this out but others should stay clear.