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3 July 1959 (USA) moreTagline:
Behind the Weird "Way-Out" World of the Beatniks! morePlot:
A detective is assigned to track down and capture a crazed serial rapist. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Precursor to A Clockwork Orange moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Steve Cochran | ... | Detective Sgt. Dave Culloran | |
| Mamie Van Doren | ... | Georgia Altera | |
| Ray Danton | ... | Stanley Belmont aka Stan Hess | |
| Fay Spain | ... | Francee Culloran | |
| Louis Armstrong | ... | Himself (as Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars) | |
| Margaret Hayes | ... | Joyce Freenfield (as Maggie Hayes) | |
| Jackie Coogan | ... | Jake Baron | |
| James Mitchum | ... | Art Jester (as Jim Mitchum) | |
| Cathy Crosby | ... | The Singer | |
| Ray Anthony | ... | Harry Altera | |
| Dick Contino | ... | Singing Beatnik | |
| Irish McCalla | ... | Marie Baron | |
| Vampira | ... | Poetess | |
| Billy Daniels | ... | Dr. Elcott | |
| Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom | ... | Wrestling Beatnik (as Maxie Rosenbloom) |
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"On the Road" author Jack Kerouac was disturbed that his friend, author John Clellon Holmes, managed to get his "Beat Generation" novel "Go" into print before his own was published ("Go", in which Kerouac is a main character, was published in 1952, while "On the Road" was not published until 1957). Kerouac was worried that Holmes was plagiarizing him, although Holmes was careful to credit Kerouac with creating the term "Beat" for their generation, and much of the material was common amongst them and other writers of their circle, such as Allen Ginsberg. Ironically, producer Albert Zugsmith outfoxed Kerouac by copyrighting the term "The Beat Generation", which he used as the title of this egregious exploitation film, which was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1959. A year later, M.G.M. released a film of Kerouac's novel "The Subterraneans", made by with top talent: It proved to be a major disappointment as it grossly misrepresented the scene (as well as Kerouac's novel). Ironically, "The Subterraneans" probably is the premier contemporary movie about the Beats, as so few "Beat" movies were made ("On the Road" has never been filmed), the phenomenon occurring during a time of strict screen censorship in the United States. By the time censorship was lifted in 1967, the Beats had been supplanted by the Hippies. moreFAQ
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Set in the late fifties, this is a tale of misguided youths, music, sex, crime, beer and police. There's a crafty script with modern dialogue and social statements. The beatniks make for a easy frame and alibi for a psychotic rapist hell bent on revenge to all women and square father-like men.
Behind the facade of crime there is a real police story and the inner-conflict between the cops, criminals, and victims are portrayed. Beautiful women both submissive and dominant mask the ugliness of both male characters cop and criminal. At the end we are not sure which side wins out. Beat Generation?