The Beatniks (1959)
The wild, weird world of the Beatniks!...Sullen rebels, defiant chicks...searching for a life of their own! The pads...the jazz...the dives...those frantic "way-out" parties...beyond belief!
A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.
- Date of release
- 1959-06-05
- TMDB
- 2.8 / 10 (20)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Director
- Paul Frees
Casting
- Tony Travis — Eddy Crane
- Karen Kadler — Iris
- Peter Breck — Bob Mooney
- Joyce Terry — Helen Tracy
- Bob Wells — Chuck
- Sam Edwards — Red
- Charles Delaney — Harry Bayliss
- Claude Stroud — Hotel Manager
- Frank Worth — Gus
- Martha Wentworth — Nadine
- Robert Paquin — Hotel Detective
- Eddie Brandt — Pianist (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Beatniks is an American crime film in the teensploitation genre directed by Paul Frees that was filmed in 1958 and released in 1959. It was also featured on the movie-mocking program Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Production
The film was shot in 1958 with the working title of Sideburns and Sympathy. That same year it was announced the film was to be produced by Elmer Carl Rhodan Jr. (1922–1959). In addition to producing teen exploitation films such as Corn's-A-Poppin' (1955), The Delinquents (1957), Daddy-O (1958), and The Cool and the Crazy (1958), Rhodan was the son of the owner of the Midwestern Commonwealth Theatre chain.
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