Pull My Daisy

Running 26m, Pull My Daisy (1959) is a Comedy and Drama film in the 123movies catalog. The cast includes Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; Alfred Leslie directs. 30 votes put it at 6.1/10. 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.