Release Date
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Original Release
November 11, 1959
0h 26m
Pull My Daisy (1959)
⭐ 6.026 min
Overview
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.
Director
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Alfred Leslie
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 0.2
Cast
Jack Kerouac
Narrator (voice)
⭐0.4
Allen Ginsberg
Alan
⭐0.9
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Gregory Corso
Gregory
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Peter Orlovsky
Peter
⭐0.4
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Larry Rivers
Milo
⭐0.1
David Amram
Mez McGillicuddy
⭐0.7
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Richard Bellamy
Bishop
⭐0.2
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Alice Neel
Bishop's Mother
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Sally Gross
Bishop's Sister
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Pablo Frank
Pablo, Milo's Son
⭐0.1
Genres
ComedyDrama
