Pull My Daisy

1959
USA
30 min

Directed by: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie
Cast: Allen Ginsberg, David Amram, Delphine Seyrig
UK release: 11 November 1959

Inspired by a true incident which occurred in the house of the Beat icon Neal Cassady; the film depicts the story of a railway brake-man and his painter wife, who have organised a dinner for their local bishop. The brake-man’s bohemian poet friends crash the dinner and don’t behave appropriately, resulting in a comic encounter.