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Pull My Daisy (1959)
Directed by Alfred Leslie, Robert Frank
“Is Holy Holy?”
Comedy, Drama · 26m
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.
Cast
Jack Kerouac
Narrator (voice)
Allen Ginsberg
Alan
G
Gregory Corso
Gregory
Peter Orlovsky
Peter
L
Larry Rivers
Milo
David Amram
Mez McGillicuddy
R
Richard Bellamy
Bishop
A
Alice Neel
Bishop's Mother
S
Sally Gross
Bishop's Sister
P
Pablo Frank
Pablo, Milo's Son
Delphine Seyrig
Milo's Wife
D
Denise Parker
Girl in Bed
Crew
- Director
- Alfred Leslie, Robert Frank
- Writer
- Jack Kerouac
Details
- Release date
- 1959-11-11
- Runtime
- 26m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English