If you wanna see a young Peter Falk, best known as the star of COLUMBO, as a leader of a group of beatniks who end up involved in a murder this is the film for you. Unfortunately this movie is a little short on the wild and crazy beatnik violence promised on the poster(there's really only one guy dying from having glass put in his hamburger and a final brawl) and it's longer on the dramatic scenes when it switches to our murder victim's brother looking for the killer. This movie is overall pretty forgettable and I can see why no one ever brings it up when discussing Falk's career. There is some snazzy hep-cat dialogue though so at least that's something.
"Wake up man, will ya? You're buggin' the tom-toms!":
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