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Walk on the Wild Side

NR
Movie
1962
1h 54m
English
Drama
At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he travelled from Texas and who is now the Doll House newest recruit.
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Laurence Harvey
Dove Linkhorn
Capucine
Hallie Gerard
Jane Fonda
Kitty Twist
Anne Baxter
Teresina Vidaverri
Barbara Stanwyck
Jo Courtney
Joanna Moore
Miss Precious
Don Barry
Dockery
Ken Lynch
Frank Bonito
Todd Armstrong
Lt. Omar Stroud
Kathryn Card
Landlady
Barbara Hines
Prostitute
Florence Wyatt
Prostitute
Elaine Martone
Prostitute (uncredited)
Virginia Holden
Prostitute
Paul Maxey
Auctioneer
Chester Jones
Black waiter
Lillian Bronson
Amy Gerard
Directed By: Edward Dmytryk
Written By: John Fante (Screenplay), Nelson Algren (Novel), + 1 more

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patrickjkellyii says...
3 years ago
Substantially edited down content wise from the novel to be approved by censors, this film is almost unrecognizable from the source material. Only a few characters retain the same names and stations, but gone is the journey of a flawed man stumbling through life. Instead, we're left with a noble and seemingly perfect man that does noble things to try and rescue his love from her life of sin. Dove Linkhorn's upstanding quality as a man was most certainly necessary to sell the film, given what did remain of the setting, but sadly, it leaves him a substantially flat as a character. All that said and done, it's still a well made movie. If you haven't read the book or can detach yourself from the source, it does an excellent job of constantly alluding to more mature elements of prostitution and debauchery without being explicit. It reminds me quite a bit of Lolita in this manner. Where by being less explicit, more is conveyed without being distracting or a crutch. Fonda and Stanwyck unsurprisingly carry the show, and I enjoyed my time.
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