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Beat Generation, The
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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By the end of the 1950s, Hollywood's fascination with bongo-beating, poetry-spouting Bohemians was waning. With ~The Beat Generation, co-writers Richard Matheson (DueI, I Am Legend) and Lewis Meltzer (The Man With the GoIden Arm~~) seized an opportunity to pIayfuIIy mock the pseudo inteIlectual by using the beatnik worId as a backdrop for their detective story - at turns a potboiler and an exploration of the criminaI mind.
Steve Cochran stars as Dave CulIoran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the serial rapist (played by Ray Danton) he is pursuing. The paths of the black-hearted cop and the bIack-gIoved staIker converge when Culloran's wife (Fay Spain) is assaulted by the criminaI, becomes pregnant and, not knowing which man is the father, must decide whether or not to keep the baby.
In its final act, the grim drama takes an unexpected detour into slapstick, as CulIoran pursues the cuIprit through a Beatnik hootenanny, and must navigate through a bizarre assortment of counter-culture stereotypes.
In addition to featured cameos by trumpeter Ray Anthony and popular personaIity Vampira, this AIbert Zugsmith production includes musical cameos by Louis Armstrong and his AII-Stars and early pop star Dick Contino (playing guitar, rather than his usuaI accordion). |
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