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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 10, 2004

Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes

Country USA

Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Famartists Productions S.A., Famous Artists Productions

Studio Columbia Pictures

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Other Titles
• Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
• Auf glühendem Pflaster (1962)
• Anime sporche (1962)



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Genre: Drama, Gay/Lesbian, Prostitution, Love

Tagline: THIS IS AN ADULT PICTURE! Parents should exercise discretion in permitting the immature to see it.

Plot: In WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, a drifter from Texas named Dove (Laurence Harvey) heads for New Orleans with attractive, fellow drifter Kitty (Jane Fonda). Once there he finds work with a good-hearted, Mexican café owner (Ann Baxter) who falls in love with him. Poor old Dove though, he'd rather hunt after the girl he's been carrying a torch for the last three years--a jaded sculptress named Hallie (Capucine), now working in a brothel run by tough lesbian Jo Courtenay (Barbara Stanwyck). When Dove finally tracks Hallie down, she hides her fallen status from his naive eyes and gradually lets his earnest simplicity win her over, with tragic results.

Helped along by beautiful black-and-white photography and a great Elmer Bernstein score, this Edward Dmytryk adaptation of the Nelson Algren novel is hampered by a lack of romantic chemistry between the two leads. Luckily, the rest of the women are amazing: Stanwyck is a great butch bitch, Baxter is superbly earthy, and Fonda is as dangerously gorgeous as the strutting black cat in the memorable Saul Bass designed opening credits.

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 Directed by
Edward Dmytryk
The Caine Mutiny, The Young Lions, Crossfire
 Written by
Nelson Algren
The Man with the Golden Arm
John Fante
Ask the Dust, Wait Until Spring, Bandini
 Cast
Jane Fonda
Nine to Five, Monster-in-Law, Barbarella
Anne Baxter
All About Eve, The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Ambersons
Barbara Stanwyck
Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve, Meet John Doe
Laurence Harvey
The Manchurian Candidate, The Alamo, Vérités et mensonges
Capucine
The Pink Panther, The Degenerates, What's New, Pussycat
Joanna Cook Moore
Touch of Evil, The Hindenburg, Son of Flubber
Richard Rust
Taras Bulba, Homicidal, Alvarez Kelly
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 Music By
Elmer Bernstein
Gangs of New York, The Blues Brothers, Ghost Busters



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