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Pull My Daisy

  • 1959
  • 30m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
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Pull My Daisy (1959)
Short

A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.

  • Directors
    • Robert Frank
    • Alfred Leslie
  • Writer
    • Jack Kerouac
  • Stars
    • Jack Kerouac
    • Allen Ginsberg
    • Gregory Corso
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    859
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    • Directors
      • Robert Frank
      • Alfred Leslie
    • Writer
      • Jack Kerouac
    • Stars
      • Jack Kerouac
      • Allen Ginsberg
      • Gregory Corso
    • 15User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
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    Jack Kerouac
    Jack Kerouac
    • Narrator
    Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg
    • Allen
    • (as Alan Ginsberg)
    Gregory Corso
    • Gregory
    Larry Rivers
    • Milo
    Peter Orlovsky
    Peter Orlovsky
    • Peter
    Delphine Seyrig
    Delphine Seyrig
    • Milo's Wife
    • (as Beltiane)
    David Amram
    • Mezz McGillicuddy
    Richard Bellamy
    • Bishop
    • (as Mooney Pebbles)
    Alice Neel
    • Bishop's Mother
    Sally Gross
    • Bishop's Sister
    Denise Parker
    • Girl in Bed
    Pablo Frank
    • Pablo
    • Directors
      • Robert Frank
      • Alfred Leslie
    • Writer
      • Jack Kerouac
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    7Screen_O_Genic

    More for the Beats Than Anything

    Perhaps the definitive Beat flick "Pull My Daisy" stars some of the foremost figures of the fabled Beat Generation from the literary genre's prime. Based on a play by Jack Kerouac the film is narrated by Kerouac himself as fellow Beat compadres Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky chat, horse around and try to behave in a family setting. Friendship, familial interactions, music and intellectualism ("Is Baseball holy?") constitute the gathering. While not among the best shorts as this slow going and tedious affair will appeal to die hards alone the personages involved make it priceless and essential. Historical, charmingly pretentious and fascinating this is one every film buff and lit enthusiast should view.
    8tmv9

    "The Beat Generation"

    One of the more quintessential displays of the era of Beat poetry and Bop music. Set in a NYC apartment, the movie is narrated by Jack Keoruac and portrays the life of an artistic 'family'. From painter, poet, and musician, the movie moves quickly without any particular place to go. It strikes at the heart of the movement and should be avoided by anybody who cannot stand the sometimes 'zoned' out babble of this generation. Enjoyable and short, the film fits a small genre of the American experience.
    mr.smith-2

    A Radical Film that Showed Us a Movement- and Also Created One.

    "The first truly beat film" -Jonas Mekas

    It is easy to say that Pull My Daisy is the epitome of "beat generation" cinema. It can also be said that Pull My Daisy was the first film to practice the radical beliefs of "The New American Cinema Group". After all the historical and analytical nonsense is done, you are still left with a film that is passionate, personal, and most importantly- a film that entertains while expanding your understanding of art and the artist within a movement.

    Pull My Daisy is based on the third act of a play written by beat generation mastermind Jack Kerouac untitled The Beat Generation (which was changed because MGM had the copyright to Beat Generation because of a low budget B-movie made by the studio in the late 50's). The new title was based on a poem written by Kerouac, poet Allen Ginsberg, and Neal Cassady in a be-bop jazz meditation (jazz and meditation- two important aspects of the film!) The film takes place in a New york apartment and never leaves the apartment except in one dream sequence. The cast of characters reads like a who's who of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Curso, Peter Orvolosky (all of which retain their real names during the film). The film itself is beautifully narrated by Keroauc with a subtle be bop jazz soundtrack. The cast acts like themselves- substance abusing philosophers who sit in lotus positions contemplating life and art. The story picks up with the entrance of a bishop with his mother and sister. He is an outsider who enters this world of poets and must focus on their neo-buddhist rantings of "is baseball holy...etc.".

    Where other films of "The New American Cinema" seem detached and unaccessible to the public- Pull My Daisy is an honest and almost affectionate portrait of the beat generation. This is the one film (with a possible inclusion of Cassavette's Shadows) of the movement that expands past the area of modernist-artistic riff-raff and tells a true story that is virtuous and right (yet highly symbolic and leaves the viewer questioning many aspects of life). Pull My Daisy is the shining star of the cannon of "The New American Cinema" and is a film that should forever be preserved for generations of alienated film makers and cinema fans.
    Mr Roboto

    On the Road--Again

    Various "Beat Generation" luminaries hang out in a New York apartment. I usually couldn't care less about the Beats, but this short film is fairly absorbing, thanks mostly to Jack Kerouac's vibrant narration. It makes me nostalgic for the '50s, and I wasn't even around back then.
    7SwollenThumb

    The Innocence Of The Beats

    A humorous almost innocent short film starring the Beat poets, alas not Kerouac but the narration which he wrote and speaks is beautiful and funny. In my innocence I was amazed to see the group passing around pot (*I know it was tobacco!) on camera. Thankfully this time capsule is available for viewing online (Open Culture) together with a clip of the poets visiting an East Side bar, filmed at the same time.

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    • Trivia
      Debut of actress Delphine Seyrig.
    • Connections
      Featured in The Fifties (1997)
    • Soundtracks
      The Crazy Daisy
      Written by David Amram, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac

      Performed by Anita Ellis

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    • Release date
      • November 11, 1959 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Погадай на ромашке
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • G-String Enterprises
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      • 30m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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