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Pull My Daisy (1959)

Pull My Daisy poster
Directed by
Alfred Leslie, Robert Frank
Genre
comedy, drama
Country
United States
Runtime
25 min
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 28 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of Beat poets and their friends gather in a cramped New York apartment. They talk, argue, and joke while waiting for a woman to visit. The film captures a casual, chaotic slice of bohemian life.

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What happens

Pull My Daisy is a 1959 American black and white short film directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie and starring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky. It was adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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