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Bookmark this pageThe Subterraneans (1960)
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Jack Kerouac's Beat odyssey is well and truly beaten to a pulp in this sanitised Hollywood claptrap. Groovester Peppard falls not for the black girl featured in the original novel but for decidedly French waif Caron. Jazz musos passing through on their way to their connection include saxman Art Pepper and flugelhorn virtuoso Art Farmer. McDowall's words of youthful wisdom: 'Hey, life is a party and everyone else is a party-crasher!' Like profoundsville, daddy-o, and in 'Scope to boot. Hypnotically abominable.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Ranald MacDougall
Producer: Arthur Freed
Cast: George Peppard, Leslie Caron, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall, Anne Seymour, Jim Hutton, Scott Marlowe, Art Pepper, Art Farmer, Gerry Mulligan, Carmen McRae full cast
Duration: 89 mins
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