I watched this film and watched it to the end and perhaps I missed something or maybe it was the fact that I watched the Mystery Science Theater 3000 cut that I missed the beatniks. What was in this film was not a beatnik as I know them. I think of some anti-establishment persona that sits in a cafe slamming poetry as well as the man! The only thing these guys have in common with beatniks is the fact they are anti-establishments. However, these guys were more like rebels and not even that, just closer.
The story has a group of friends that rob a place and then head to a diner where one of the guys decides to sing where an agent overhears it and decides that this guy is going to be a star. Unfortunately, the guy's friends are a bit of a hindrance to the guy's chances at singing. Well the one dude who was named Mooney is the main problem as he likes to stab, to shoot and wants to be famous himself...by being a super killer! So the deck is stacked against the guy, but he has the belief of his agent and the agent's secretary to keep him going and perhaps he will make the right choice!
This one made for a very funny episode of MST3K and I find it funny that this film was called Beatniks and featured no one remotely resembling a beatnik and they also did a film called The Rebel Set where the characters were more like beatniks! So in the end, not a great film, but I will say by the end of the film you will want Mooney dead! How could someone be so stupid as to see his buddy about to make it big, but instead of riding the coattails, he instead wants to sabotage said career! So a film with shootings, stabbings, aspiring singers and a whole lot of other things...except beatniks.
The story has a group of friends that rob a place and then head to a diner where one of the guys decides to sing where an agent overhears it and decides that this guy is going to be a star. Unfortunately, the guy's friends are a bit of a hindrance to the guy's chances at singing. Well the one dude who was named Mooney is the main problem as he likes to stab, to shoot and wants to be famous himself...by being a super killer! So the deck is stacked against the guy, but he has the belief of his agent and the agent's secretary to keep him going and perhaps he will make the right choice!
This one made for a very funny episode of MST3K and I find it funny that this film was called Beatniks and featured no one remotely resembling a beatnik and they also did a film called The Rebel Set where the characters were more like beatniks! So in the end, not a great film, but I will say by the end of the film you will want Mooney dead! How could someone be so stupid as to see his buddy about to make it big, but instead of riding the coattails, he instead wants to sabotage said career! So a film with shootings, stabbings, aspiring singers and a whole lot of other things...except beatniks.