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The Beatniks

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!

Jan. 01, 1960

01:18:00

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Overview:

A talent agent spots a hippie singer and offers to make him a star but his chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

Director: Paul Frees

Writer: Paul Frees

Cast: Karen Kadler, Joyce Terry, Martha Wentworth, ...

Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical

Tags: Teensploitation

Keywords: Psychotronic Film, Jukebox, Rockola Jukebox, ...

Description

Eddy Crane is the leader of a gang that robs small businesses for petty cash. At one point, his gang accosts the broken-down car of a music business executive, Harry Bayliss. Afterward Bayliss wishes to call a tow truck, so he goes into the diner where Eddy\'s gang is celebrating. Bayliss overhears Eddy singing to the jukebox and offers him a chance to audition for his variety program. Eddy accepts, passes his audition, and is given a spot on television. Eddy sings a two-minute song that is apparently stupendously successful, with Bayliss calling Eddy an \"overnight sensation\" and prophesying an astounding rise to fame, complete with a hit record, \"a guest spot on every top show,\" and eventually culminating with \"The Eddy Crane Show.\" Atop Eddy\'s newfound success, he also immediately begins making advances at Bayliss\'s secretary, Helen Tracy, in preference over his long-suffering girlfriend, Iris.

The specter of Eddy\'s stardom raises dissension among his gang, who wish either to accompany him unquestionably on his ascent, or to hold him back in their ranks. Iris is also jealous of Helen, with whom Eddy has been carrying on an affair. Helen eventually professes her love for Eddy. But one of Eddy\'s gang members, Moon, kills a fat barkeep, threatening to drag Eddy down by association. Moon runs from the police, but is tracked down by Eddy, who delivers him for arrest. With this he also definitively separates himself from the rest of his gang and from Iris, but also destroys his prospects for a career as a singer with his own arrest.

Director: Paul Frees

Writer: Paul Frees

Cast: Karen Kadler Joyce Terry Martha Wentworth Tony Travis Peter Breck Bob Wells Sam Edwards Charles Delaney Claude Stroud Frank Worth Bob Pacquin

Tags: Teensploitation

Keywords: Psychotronic Film, Jukebox, Rockola Jukebox, Rockola, Diner, Singer, Audition, Singing, Electric Guitar, Teenage Prostitute, Drugs, Sexual Intercourse, Lie, Rival Gangs, Beating, Knives, Fistfight, Seduction, Young, Fame

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