Pull My Daisy (1959)
26m
Running Time
November 11, 1959Release Date
Plot.
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bishop over for dinner. However, the brakeman's Bohemian friends crash the party, with comic results. Pull My Daisy is a film that typifies the Beat Generation. Directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, Daisy was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation; Kerouac also provided improvised narration.
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Cast & Crew.
Jack Kerouac
Narrator / Writer
Allen Ginsberg
Alan
Gregory Corso
Gregory
Peter Orlovsky
Peter
Larry Rivers
Milo
David Amram
Mez McGillicuddy / Music
Richard Bellamy
Bishop
Alice Neel
Bishop's Mother
Sally Gross
Bishop's Sister
Pablo Frank
Pablo, Milo's son
Delphine Seyrig
Milo's Wife
Denise Parker
Girl in Bed
Robert Frank
Director
Alfred Leslie
Director
Leon Prochnik
Editor
Media.
Details.
This Movie Is About.
poetry
beat generation
short
new york
black and white
improvisation
beat poetry
Wiki.
Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.
Kerouac also provided improvised narration. It features poets Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers and Alice Neel, musician David Amram, art dealer Richard Bellamy, Delphine Seyrig, dancer Sally Gross, and Pablo Frank, Robert Frank's son.
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