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A PULSATING STORY OF MODERN YOUTH more
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Eddie Crane is on his way to becoming a top recording star...if he can only break away from his lawless beatnik friends who are his only companions...
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"A pulsating story of modern youth-defiant-explosive"
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Tony Travis | ... | Eddy Crane |
| Joyce Terry | ... | Helen Tracy |
| Peter Breck | ... | Bob 'Moon' Mooney |
| Karen Kadler | ... | Iris |
| Charles Delaney | ... | Harry Bayliss |
 | Sam Edwards | ... | Red |
| Bob Wells | ... | Chuck |
| Stanley Farrar | ... | Mr. Ray Morrissey |
| Claude Stroud | ... | The Hotel Manager |
| Bob Pacquin | ... | The Hotel Detective |
| Martha Wentworth | ... | Nadine (Iris' Mother) |
| Frank Worth | ... | Gus, the bartender |
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Revealing mistakes: Throughout the movie, the characters can be seen looking off-screen and reading lines from cue-cards or taking cues from crew.
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[the nebbish hotel manager, complaining about the gang's behavior, gets mocked for his trouble]
The Hotel Manager: Whyyyy, you young hoodlums, I'll call the police!
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: You say one word to anyone and I'm gonna *moon* you.
The Hotel Manager: You're gonna what?
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: MOON YOU!
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The Hotel Manager: Whyyyy, you young hoodlums, I'll call the police!
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: You say one word to anyone and I'm gonna *moon* you.
The Hotel Manager: You're gonna what?
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: MOON YOU!
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Featured in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beatniks (#5.15)" (1992)
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Maybe for the time is might have been, especially with a tag-line like that. This pretty obscure film is about Bad singers, Sleazy Talent scouts, teen gangs, robbery and general pandemonium. No Beatniks here, really. Ginsberg and Kerouac probably couldn't believe what they had wrought-this certainly was not it.
If you want to see a better example of one of the so called "beatnik" films that were created around 1959 to 1961, (where Exploitation Producers latched onto popular media phrases like "Beatnik"), check out The Beat Generation starring Mamie Van Doren, or Beat Girl starring a then unknown Oliver Reed. Although these were not about 'niks they had a somewhat inkling to what a "beatnik" was.
As with all exploitation films very few of the catch phrases and trends used in marketing the films were used very accurately, nevertheless the films did make obscene amounts of money because they were presented to the public within a few months of a trend that was in high gear.