The Beatniks

1958
1h 18m

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A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

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2.6/10

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Tony Travis

Eddy Crane

Karen Kadler

Iris

Peter Breck

Bob Mooney

Joyce Terry

Helen Tracy

Bob Wells

Chuck

Sam Edwards

Charles Delaney

Harry Bayliss

Stanley Farrar

Morrissey
(as Stan Farrar)

Claude Stroud

Hotel Manager

Martha Wentworth

Nadine

Frank Worth

Bartender

Robert Paquin

Hotel Detective
(as Bob Paquin)

Eddie Brandt

Pianist
(uncredited)

Paul Frees

Various Voices
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Paul Frees
Writer
- Paul Frees
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Trivia
Featured by Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 5, episode 15 - Aired 11/25/92.

Goofs
During Eddie's recording session, his song is recorded on tape and directly to a master disc. After tape recording was introduced in the late 1940s, record companies stopped recording directly to master discs.

Quotes
[the nebbish hotel manager, complaining about the gang's behavior, gets mocked for his trouble]
The Hotel Manager: Whyyyy, you young hoodlums, I'll call the police!
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: You say one word to anyone and I'm gonna *moon* you.
The Hotel Manager: You're gonna what?
Bob 'Moon' Mooney: MOON YOU!

Connections
Featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beatniks (1992)

And Yet, We Continue As a Civilization

You take your chances with the Digiview flicks at the Wal-Mart Dollar DVD kiosk. Every once in a while you find a small gem. Paul Frees' The Beatniks is not one of them.

This is a grade Z, bottom-of-the-drive-in-bill waste of celluloid that deservedly got a MST3000 treatment. How does stuff like this get made? You could call the distributor, but most everyone involved in The Beatniks is probably dead and Digiview just scoops up cinematic flotsam and jetsam and puts in cheap disks for your viewing amazement. The trouble is it's simply so bad, so utterly inept that no one dare get mad at it.

All one can do is--if one is so inclined to sit still for 70+ minutes--watch in slack-jawed amazement at cinematic awfulness.

C'mon . . . it's only a buck!