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The Subterraneans is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ranald MacDougall released in USA on 23 june 1960 with Leslie Caron
The Subterraneans (1960)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 23 june 1960
Length 1h29
Directed by Ranald MacDougall
OriginUSA
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Rating50%
The Subterraneans is a 1958 novella by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. It is a semi-fictional account of his short romance with a black woman named Alene Lee (1931-1991) in San Francisco, 1953. In the novel she is renamed "Mardou Fox," and described as a carefree spirit who frequents the jazz clubs and bars of the budding Beat scene of San Francisco. Other well-known personalities and friends from the author's life also appear thinly disguised in the novel. The character Frank Carmody is based on William S. Burroughs, and Adam Moorad on Allen Ginsberg. Even Gore Vidal appears as successful novelist Arial Lavalina. Kerouac's alter ego is named Leo Percepied, and his long-time friend Neal Cassady is mentioned only in passing as Leroy.
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Leo is a 28-year-old novelist who still lives at home with his mother. One night he stumbles upon some beatniks at a coffee house. He falls in love with the beautiful but unstable Mardou Fox.Actors
Leslie Caron
(Mardou Fox)
George Peppard
(Leo Percepied)
Janice Rule
(Roxanne)
Roddy McDowall
(Yuri Gilgoric)
Anne Seymour
(Charlotte Percepied)
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