The Moving Finger
After a bank robbery, one of a group of thieves escapes with his life--and $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is taken in by a group of bohemians who shoot him full of morphine to ease his pain and let him sleep it off on a mattress. Mason is the head beatnik. There's also the owner of both an upstairs coffeehouse and garret, where these beatniks hang out, and in turn bring in the tourist trade. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle, which includes smoking and selling dope, mooching at art galleries, having long conversations about all sorts of things, and throwing a beat shindig.
- 1963
- 1 Hr 21 Mins
- Drama
After a bank robbery, one of a group of thieves escapes with his life--and $90,000 in loot. Injured and on the run, he hides in a local tour bus and is taken in by a group of bohemians who shoot him full of morphine to ease his pain and let him sleep it off on a mattress. Mason is the head beatnik. There's also the owner of both an upstairs coffeehouse and garret, where these beatniks hang out, and in turn bring in the tourist trade. Although the robbery is supposed to be the main focus, it quickly turns into more of a character study featuring these rebellious bon vivants and their odd lifestyle, which includes smoking and selling dope, mooching at art galleries, having long conversations about all sorts of things, and throwing a beat shindig.
