Tate–LaBianca Murder Victims: Abigail Folger Wojciech Frykowski Steven Parent Jay Sebring Sharon Tate
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
With
Charles Manson
Bobby Beausoleil
Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme
Sandra Good
Steve Grogan
Vincent Bugliosi (Helter Skelter)
George Spahn
Leslie Van Houten
Susan Atkins
Tex Watson
Patricia Krenwinkel
Linda Kasabian
Mary Brunner
Bruce Davis
Ronnie Howard
Jesse Pearson Narrator
Phil Phillips
Nancy Pitman
Brooks Poston
Catherine Share
Paul Watkins
"Whatever's necessary to do, you do it. When somebody needs to be killed, there's no wrong, you do it. And you move on. And you pick up a child, and you move into the desert. You pick up as many children as you can. And you kill whoever gets in your way, this is us." - Squeaky' Fromme
Charles Manson Manson Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch. “There are no actors in this film.” That’s the message announced onscreen at the start of Manson, a scrambled collection of interviews with Manson Family members, news footage, and psychedelic visual effects.
murdered Sharon Tate shot extensively at Spahn Movie Ranch, the Manson Family’s headquarters. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and other shaved-head, shotgun-pumping female followers still living there spout rapturously about revolution and Charlie’s kingdom to come.
Manson actually nabbed an Academy Award nomination for Best Feature Documentary, but lost to the extraordinary (and not entirely unrelated) Marjoe.
In 1976, Squeaky Fromme attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford, prompting California authorities to order Manson temporarily removed from circulation in the state so as not to influence jury members. Distributors immediately, then, rushed it into theaters everywhere else, emblazoned with the bold tagline, “Banned in California!”