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    The Flower Thief - TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON

    The Flower Thief - TAYLOR MEAD IN PERSON

    Presented by Harvard Film Archive at Harvard Film Archive

    October 21, 2011

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    Directed by Ron Rice. With Taylor Mead, Barry Clark, Heinz Ellsworth
    US 1960, 16mm, b/w, 75min
    In the old Hollywood days movie studios would keep a man on the set who, when all other sources of ideas failed (writers, directors) was called upon to 'cook up' something for filming. He was called The Wild Man. The Flower Thief has been put together in memory of all dead wild men who died unnoticed in the field of stunt.—Ron Rice

    Inspired by the poetry of Allen Ginsberg and especially by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy (1959), Ron Rice cast Mead as the protagonist of his own improvised, Beat-inspired vehicle: a picaresque ramble through San Francisco coffee houses, playgrounds and ramshackle seafront structures.


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        Harvard Film Archive

        Harvard Film Archive Cinematheque
        24 Quincy Street
        Cambridge, MA 02138

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        October 21, 2011

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        7pm

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