The Beat Generation (1959)
Set within the popular bohemian coffee houses of the late '50s where beatniks gathered to recite poetry and perform, this sensationalistic detective drama centers upon the attempts of an insensitive police detective to catch an arrogant serial rapist, a rich young man who believes himself mentally superior and therefore beyond the law. His favorite victims are married women. When he learns that the detective is after him, the rapist targets the cop's wife. Later the poor wife discovers she's pregnant and cannot be sure who fathered her child. The film is alternatively titled This Rebel Age. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Steve Cochran, Mamie van Doren, (more)
- Director(s):
- Charles F. Haas
Synopsis of The Beat Generation
Set within the popular bohemian coffee houses of the late '50s where beatniks gathered to recite poetry and perform, this sensationalistic detective drama centers upon the attempts of an insensitive police detective to catch an arrogant serial rapist, a rich young man who believes himself mentally superior and therefore beyond the law. His favorite victims are married women. When he learns that the detective is after him, the rapist targets the cop's wife. Later the poor wife discovers she's pregnant and cannot be sure who fathered her child. The film is alternatively titled This Rebel Age. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Beat Generation
- Steve Cochran - Dave Culloran
- Ray Danton - Stan Hess
- Louis Armstrong - Himself
- Jackie Coogan - Jake Baron
- Ray Anthony - Harry Altera
- Irish McCalla - Marie Baron
- "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom - Wrestling Beatnik
- Anne Anderson - Meg
- Paul Cavanagh
- Maila "Vampira" Nurmi - Poetess
- Mamie van Doren - Georgia Altera
- Fay Spain - Francee Culloran
- Maggie Hayes - Joyce Greenfield
- Cathy Lee Crosby - The Singer
- Dick Contino - Singing Beatnik
- Billy Daniels - Dr. Elcott
- Charles Chaplin, Jr. - Lover Boy
- James Mitchum
- Norman Grabowski - Beat Beatnik
- Maggie Hayes - Joyce Greenfield
- Director(s):
- Charles F. Haas
- Writer(s):
- Lewis Meltzer, Walter H. Castle, Richard Matheson
- Producer(s):
- Albert Zugsmith
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