Pull My Daisy (1959)
Directed by Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie · 26 min · Comedy, Drama
5.6 TOPICAL score · #6,101 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Pull My Daisy (1959, directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie) has a TOPICAL score of 5.6 - ranked 6,101 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on audience and lasting engagement, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 6.1/10 (30 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 6.1/10 (30 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read1,523 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky
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