The Beatniks
A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.
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"No Beatniks appear in this film, the acting by the young leads is execrable, the song lyrics are both insane and badly lip-synched, and the plot is dumb. As others have commented, radio and voice actor Paul Frees assembled quite a nice cast of fellow radio and voice actors to play the "normal" people in this tale of troubled youth, but he neglected to cast credible actors as the over-the-hill "teens" who hang around engaging in delinquent acts of senseless violence. I was quite pleased to see radio and voice actor Stanley Farrar on screen, and, like other comment writers i ..."
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Like most exploitation films at the dawn of the teenage-rock-n-roll-era, the title of the film is pure sensationalism. There is actually nothing in the film about beatniks, nor anything about the Beat Generation in general.
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A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.