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Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 11, 1959
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Cast
- Jack Kerouac,Denise Parker,Alice Neel,Gregory Corso,Peter Orlovsky,Pablo Frank,Sally Gross,Larry Rivers,Richard Bellamy,Allen Ginsbergand 2 more
- Director
- Alfred Leslie,Robert Frank
- Writer
- Jack Kerouac
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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