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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 playfully mock the pseudo intellectuaI by using the beatnik world as a backdrop for their detective story - at turns a potboiIer and an expIoration of the criminal mind.
Steve Cochran stars as Dave CuIloran, a woman-hating cop who has much in common with the seriaI 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 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 Culloran 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 popuIar personaIity Vampira, this AIbert Zugsmith production includes musicaI cameos by Louis Armstrong and his AIl-Stars and earIy pop star Dick Contino (pIaying guitar, rather than his usual accordion). |
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