Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
March 20, 1962Release Date
Walk on the Wild Side (1962)
March 20, 1962Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Laurence Harvey
Dove Linkhorn
Capucine
Hallie
Jane Fonda
Kitty Twist
Anne Baxter
Teresina Vidaverri
Barbara Stanwyck
Jo Courtney
Joanna Moore
Miss Precious
Richard Rust
Oliver
Karl Swenson
Schmidt
Raphael Hayes
Writer
Don Barry
Dockery
Juanita Moore
Mama
John Anderson
Preacher
Ben Hecht
Writer
Ken Lynch
Frank Bonito
Edward Dmytryk
Director
Todd Armstrong
Lt. Omar Stroud
Nelson Algren
Writer
Sherry O'Neil
Reba
John Fante
Writer
Edmund Morris
Writer
John Bryant
Spence
Kathryn Card
Landlady
Charles K. Feldman
Producer
Elmer Bernstein
Composer
Barbara Hines
Prostitute
Patricia Tiernan
Prostitute
Joseph MacDonald
Cinematographer
Florence Wyatt
Prostitute
Harry Gerstad
Editor
Richard Sylbert
ProductionDesigner
Elaine Martone
Prostitute (uncredited)
Virginia Holden
Prostitute
Media.
Details.
Release DateMarch 20, 1962
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 54m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsNew Orleans, United States of America
Genres
Wiki.
Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck. It was adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by American author Nelson Algren. The film was scripted by John Fante.
While it passed its censors, it was an adult film noir with explicit overtones and subject matter. It walks its audience through the lives and relationships between adults (mostly women) engaged in the "business" of commercial prostitution at a stylish New Orleans brothel. The "boss" is Madam Jo (Stanwyck), who combines toughness with a motherly tenderness toward her "girls."
Life wrote "Jane Fonda portrays a grubby, footloose prostitute...just arrived in New Orleans to live in a fancy house where much of the action takes place...to get approval by the Code Authority and Legion of Decency, the movie changes some of the most evil characters into good ones, and at the end justice triumphs, not Jane."