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Name: The Beat Generation / The Connection
Genre: Drama

THE BEAT GENERATION, 1959, 95 min. Dir. Charles Haas. Tough cop Steve Cochran tracks rapist, Ray Danton, on a path through L.A. beatnik coffee houses, poetry readings and assorted sin dens. With Mamie Van Doren, Louis Armstrong, Vampira (reciting poetry) and "Slapsy Maxie" Rosenbloom as a wrestling beatnik! THE CONNECTION, 1962, 110 min. Shirley Clarke's critically acclaimed experimental debut feature from New York had certified "beat" roots. Using a film-within-a-film framework, Clarke follows a documentarian as he films jazz musicians waiting in anticipation of their next fix. With Warren Finnerty, Roscoe Lee Browne.

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What is The Beat Generation / The Connection about?: THE BEAT GENERATION, 1959, 95 min. Dir. Charles Haas. Tough cop Steve Cochran tracks rapist, Ray Danton, on a path through L.A. beatnik coffee houses, poetry readings and assorted sin dens. With Mamie Van Doren, Louis Armstrong, Vampira (reciting poetry) and "Slapsy Maxie" Rosenbloom as a wrestling beatnik!

THE CONNECTION, 1962, 110 min. Shirley Clarke's critically acclaimed experimental debut feature from New York had certified "beat" roots. Using a film-within-a-film framework, Clarke follows a documentarian as he films jazz musicians waiting in anticipation of their next fix. With Warren Finnerty, Roscoe Lee Browne.