"If you, at the very least, have a passing interest in the Beat Generation, then you will definitely get a kick out of this oddball short film from 1959 called Pull My Daisy," Indiewire observed in showcasing the project shot by legendary photographer Robert Frank, directed by Alfred Leslie and adapted by Jack Kerouac from the third act of his play, Beat Generation.
Kerouac provides improvised narration to accompany performances by, among others, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso, artists Larry Rivers and Alice Neel, musician David Amram, actors Richard Bellamy and Delphine Seyrig and dancer Sally Gross.
In 1996, the Library of Congress selected Pull My Daisy for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant."
