A love story between two misunderstood new bohemians who don't even understand themselves.A love story between two misunderstood new bohemians who don't even understand themselves.A love story between two misunderstood new bohemians who don't even understand themselves.
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- TriviaIn the novel, the character of Mardou Fox is African American and Cherokee, as was the actual woman Jack Kerouac based the character on.
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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!
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A Monstrous Embarrassment
If this film is hard to get a hold of, it's probably because anyone involved in it has tried to buy up and destroy the prints. Never mind the faithlessness to Kerouac -- this is about as close to the spirit and vision of Kerouac as Howdy Doody is to Shakespeare -- the script provides ample opportunities for the humiliation of actors, opportunities which, unfortunately are exploited to the full. George Peppard is miscast as a soul-searching intellectual writer, but seems to have the soul of a soft, fluffy robot. Roddy MacDowell doesn't speak his lines, but declaims them. The otherwise charming Leslie Caron has the depth of a neurotic paper doll. It's a kind of exploitation film: instant beatnik, just add intelligence. My compliments to anyone who can watch this for five minutes without cringing.
- jay-fogelman
- Oct 8, 2010
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- $931,724 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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