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Release Date: 1959

Cast: Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren

Categories: Movies, Mystery, Detective fiction, Detective, Film noir

The Beat Generation (1959) is a film by MGM starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, Vampira, and Ray Anthony. It is a sensationalistic interpretation of the beatnik culture of the "Beat Generation" (and is sometimes considered one of the very last films noir to be produced.) The movie was also shown under the title This Rebel Age. The director was Charles F. Haas. Richard Matheson and Lewis Meltzer are credited with the screenplay. "The Aspirin Kid" is wanted by the law. He is so known because apparently he uses... MORE

The Beat Generation (1959) is a film by MGM starring Steve Cochran and Mamie Van Doren, with Ray Danton, Fay Spain, Maggie Hayes, Jackie Coogan, Louis Armstrong, Vampira, and Ray Anthony. It is a sensationalistic interpretation of the beatnik culture of the "Beat Generation" (and is sometimes considered one of the very last films noir to be produced.) The movie was also shown under the title This Rebel Age. The director was Charles F. Haas. Richard Matheson and Lewis Meltzer are credited with the screenplay. "The Aspirin Kid" is wanted by the law. He is so known because apparently he uses the ruse of faking a headache and asking women for an aspirin, wherepon he robs them (and worse). He acts like a Beatnik as a disguise. At the start of the film Arthur Garrett (Garrett is the name Ray Danton tells his victims) is picked up by Detective Culloran after he nearly hits him. Garrett gives the name Stan Hess to the detective (He makes up the alias whilst looking into the backseat of the car and discovering the detective's address). The case of 'The Aspirin Kid' is assigned to two detectives, Culloran and Baron. Culloran is a twice married man whose first marriage has made him suspicious LESS