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Cast
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| George Peppard | ... | ||
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| Anne Seymour | ... | ||
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| Carmen McRae | ... |
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| André Previn | ... |
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based on novelTaglines:
These are The Subterraneans Today's Young Rebels - Who live and love in a world of their own this is their story told to the hot rhythms of fabulous jazz!Genres:
DramaParents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
23 June 1960 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
De underjordiska See more »Filming Locations:
San Francisco, California, USABox Office
Budget:
$931,724 (estimated)Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
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2.35 : 1
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Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Performed by Carmen McRae with The André Previn Trio
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In the novel, the character of Mardou Fox is African American and Cherokee, as was the actual woman Jack Kerouac based the character on. See more »Quotes
Mardou Fox: I go through men as other women go through money. I'm a spendthrift with men ... I want so badly to be a miser!See more »
Connections
Featured in American Masters: The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999) See more »Soundtracks
"Coffee Time"Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Arthur Freed
Performed by Carmen McRae with The André Previn Trio
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There are good bad films and bad bad films - this is a skin-crawlingly embarrassing bad film. It starts with a title text about "Bohemians" who gather in Greenwich Village, London's Soho, the Left Bank in Paris, and San Francisco.
We then see George Peppard playing a frustrated would-be author shouting at his typewriter and telling his long-suffering mother he is hungry for life and needs to discover its meaning.
After this the film goes downhill as George encounters a group of Beatniks who gather in a place called the "Catacombs", call each other "man", have very intense relationships and meditate on the cosmic.
This is just a joke. A caricature of existentialism, 'beat culture' or whatever you want to call it. It also marks the point where young people starting taking themselves too seriously, felt they had "Something To Say" simply because they *were* young and that they knew how to put things right. Sorry, chaps, the world's a s**t-house and that's it. Dear San Francisco, if you think *this* is a youth movement, wait until you see what 1967 has in store.
Why this should be a Turner "Classic" Movie is beyond me (unless we're talking about some sort of "classic age" of movie-making). MGM was responsible for enough true classics for this piece of bilge to be quietly forgotten.