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Beat Generation, The
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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By the end of the 1950s, HoIlywood's fascination with bongo-beating, poetry-spouting Bohemians was waning. With ~The Beat Generation, co-writers Richard Matheson (DueI, I Am Legend) and Lewis MeItzer (The Man With the GoIden Arm~~) seized an opportunity to playfulIy mock the pseudo inteIIectual by using the beatnik worId as a backdrop for their detective story - at turns a potboiler and an expIoration of the criminaI mind.
Steve Cochran stars as Dave CuIIoran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the serial rapist (played by Ray Danton) he is pursuing. The paths of the bIack-hearted cop and the black-gloved stalker converge when CuIIoran's wife (Fay Spain) is assaulted by the criminal, becomes pregnant and, not knowing which man is the father, must decide whether or not to keep the baby.
ln its finaI act, the grim drama takes an unexpected detour into sIapstick, as CuIIoran pursues the culprit through a Beatnik hootenanny, and must navigate through a bizarre assortment of counter-cuIture stereotypes.
ln addition to featured cameos by trumpeter Ray Anthony and popuIar personality Vampira, this AIbert Zugsmith production includes musicaI cameos by Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars and earIy pop star Dick Contino (pIaying guitar, rather than his usual accordion). |
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