“In the old Hollywood days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of ideas failed...was called upon to ‘cook up' something.... He was called The Wild Man. The Flower Thief has been put together in memory of all the dead wild men who died unnoticed in the field of stunt.” (Ron Rice) Ron Rice's landmark first film stars Taylor Mead who, like Rice, was a vital contributor to the New American Cinema movement in the late fifties and early sixties. The Flower Thief depicts the wild adventures of a young man who lives for the moment, lavishing his love and enthusiasm upon whatever strikes his fancy. A joyous and moving testament to the beat generation, gentle and dreamlike, it is set in no-man's land, but was shot in San Francisco. Rice made three other films--Senseless, Chumlum and The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man--before his untimely death at the age of twenty-nine.