September 27 1965 

MICKEY ONE, written by Alan Surgal, and directed by Arthur Penn, opens and bombs at the box-office. A mesmerising, noirish, B & W slice of Kafkaesque paranoia with young Warren Beatty as stand-up comic who may be on the run from the mob. Surreal, existential, mind fucking, New Wave influenced art film writ large. Co-starring Alexandra Stewart and Hurd Hatfield. One of the sixties' lost gems.

 

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