Tagline(s):	Exploding from Alleyways and Ivory Towers...
	Living by Their Code of Rebellion and Mutiny!
	Hollywood Hoodlums on a Rock n' Roll Rampage!
	Satchmo's hotter than ever at the box-office
	Intimate Secrets Of The Beat Generation!
	The wild, weird world of the Beatniks!...Sullen rebels, defiant chicks...searching for a life of their own! The pads...the jazz...the dives...those frantic "way-out" parties...beyond belief!
	Their Password Was Mutiny Against Society!
	Defiant! Explosive!

Nomination Year: 1994

SYNOPSIS: A young singer's chance at fame is threatened by his hoodlum pals.

Smithee Award Nominations

Acting Appropriately Stupid
Free Sucker with Every Punch The beatniks are making trouble at the malt shop, and Pops is calling the cops. But when one acts sorry, Pops relents and turns his back. POW!	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Paul Frees	A radio star before movies and TV, his instantly- recognizable deep voice is ubiquitous, from Boris Badenov to Burgermeister Meisterburger to Ludwig Von Drake to the Pillsbury Dough Boy. He only directed one film...sadly, this one.

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Tony Travis	Eddie Crane
Karen Kadler	Iris	Ellen Peters in It Conquered the World...and this.
Peter Breck	Mooney	Known for Westerns, he did a bunch of fantasy as well. Was Clay Culhane on "The Black Saddle," Nick Barkley on "The Big Valley," Steve Curan in The Crawling Hand, and King Leonidas in The Sword and the Sorcerer.
Joyce Terry	Helen Tracy	Jan Groves in The Neanderthal Man.
Bob Wells	Chuck
Sam Edwards	Red	With over 150 credits from the '30s to the '80s, he's played small parts in tons of TV episodes, as well as lending his voice to such shows as "Jonny Quest," "The Flintstones," and "The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show."
Charles Delaney	Bayliss	A silent-film-era actor who has credits as far back as 1913, Delaney was Jimmy Gray in Hell-Bent for Frisco and Judd Rascomb in The Lonesome Trail. Sadly, Beatniks! was his last picture.

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