Hootenanny a Go-Go

Hootenanny a Go-Go

1965 · 91 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy, Drama, Music

A square rich boy wants to make it with a pretty folk singer, so he buys the coffee house where she and a bunch of other beatniks perform. Features performances by The Goldebriars, The Free Wheelers, and a very young Joan Rivers doing a stand-up routine.

Directed by Shepard Traube · Written by Jerry Winters

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