🎬 One Star to Rule Them All: The Beatniks (1959) and the Case of the Missing Beatniks

There are cinematic misfires, and then there is The Beatniks, a film so wildly off-target it could only have been named during a caffeine crash in a marketing meeting. As a teensploitation crime flick marketed to the tambourine-beating, beret-wearing pseudo-intellectuals of Eisenhower-era America, it has precisely nothing to do with beatniks. No jazz poetry. No, Ginsberg. Not even a…