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| George Peppard | ... | ||
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| Roddy McDowall | ... | ||
| Anne Seymour | ... | ||
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| Carmen McRae | ... |
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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:
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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: Our town changed hands six times. My mother changed hands more often than that.See more »
Connections
Featured in Great Performances: Musicals Great Musicals: The Arthur Freed Unit at MGM (1996) 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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Reviled by the original Beats, most notably Allen Ginsberg, and now virtually unobtainable in video form (let alone DVD) from any source, The Subterraneans has been derided as a Hollywood hatchet job bearing very little resemblance to the Kerouac book on which its based. The plot is simple, disillusioned writer, George Peppard, explores the 'subterranean' depths of San Francisco's North Beach district circa 1959 looking for anybody who will share his jaded perspective on life and finds romance amongst the Beatniks in the form of slightly touched Leslie Caron (original book's black female love interest is replaced by a French girl for Hollywood palates). Script is similarly lightweight, with intermittent nods to the language of the Beats and a clumsy attempt to re-create the famous Ginsberg "Howl" reading, but nevertheless the movie as a whole is stangely compelling in a historical sense, not as a faithful representation of Beat culture, but rather as a view on how the Beats were commoditized and became 'Beatniks'. If you have an interest in the popular culture of the time, daddio, then like, seek this flick out, if you're a serious Beat scholar, stay away.