Hal King is a film musical; an epic coming of age romance set in the late 1950s beatnik jazz scene.

Hal King is a coming of age film musical, based on Shakespeare's King Henry IV, loosely set in the US during the jazz era. Hal, the son of a community leader, lives the high life running with drug addicts and fast women. But after being drafted for the Korean War, he comes home as a changed man and falls in love with his father's political rival.—Steve Wallace