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Box office. $750,000 [1] The Beat Generation is a 1959 American crime film noir from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, James Mitchum, Vampira, and Ray Anthony. [2] It is a sensationalistic interpretation of the beatnik counterculture of the ...
The Beat Generation: Directed by Charles F. Haas. With Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Ray Danton, Fay Spain. A detective is assigned to track down and capture a crazed serial rapist.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Charles F. Haas
- 1959-07-03
- On The Road
- Big Sur
- Kill Your Darlings
- Howl
- Heart Beat
“The only people for me are the mad ones.”— Jack Kerouac On The Road may represent the Beat era to the modern reader more than any other work. This 2012 film is the first adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s groundbreaking 1957 novel – a surprising delay for a novel so popular and so widely discussed. Attempts to produce a film version began soon after the...
“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.” — Jack Kerouac The actual plot of Big Sur, based on the 1962 novel by Jack Kerouac, is extremely minimal; it describes three visits by Kerouac to a seaside cottage owned by a friend and publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, during a time when Kerouac is depressed and aimless, and struggling with alco...
“Be careful, you are not in Wonderland.”— Allen Ginsberg The American Beat writers were known not only for their influence on literature, culture, and thought, but for their enduring friendships and the effect of their various relationships on their art and their personal lives. Kill Your Darlingsdeals with both factors more or less equally. It is ...
“What is obscenity? And to whom?”— Alan Ginsberg Alan Ginsberg is one of the individuals who stands for the Beat generations and Beat writing, more than any other apart from Jack Kerouac. His masterpiece is Howl, a lengthy, ambitious, four-part poem published in 1956, which famously elevated the scruffy coffeehouse ‘beatniks’ of the ‘50s to “angel ...
“I don’t think we did anything wrong. We just did it first.” — Carolyn Cassady This 1980 film by John Byrum is adapted from Heart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal, the memoirs of Carolyn Cassady, wife of Beat writer Neal Cassady. It is often a bit lacklustre in spite of an impressive cast – a young Nick Nolte as Neal Cassady, John Heard as Jack Ker...
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The Beat Generation (1959) The Beat Generation (1959) is an outré exploitation rapist versus cop beatnik beat thriller which manages to deal with the worst social topics imaginable and do so in a madly unorthodox and spoof manner, while working hard to retain narrative dignity. Featuring an array of daft and hip beats, beat songs, beat drinks ...
Oh boy. One of the weirdest films in the noir cycle, Charles Haas’ The Beat Generation is highly entertaining in spite of itself. Ostensibly about a cop (Steve Cochran) who trails a serial rapist (Ray Danton) after he attacks and impregnates the cop’s wife, the film is a pastiche of out-of-left-field elements — some goofy, some unnerving — that somehow grip the viewer: a beatnik café ...
Intro: Beat features. In a moment of genuine power and heart-rending revulsion towards the end of Walter Salles’ long-awaited, recently released adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s 1957 generation-defining roman-a-clef On the Road, Sal Paradise (), the film’s narrator, lies prone, delirious with dysentery in a dingy Mexico City brothel room at the end of his travels across the wide-open ...
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