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Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

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This moody and controversial drama takes place in Depression-era New Orleans. Dove (Laurence Harvey) has traveled by bus from Texas to find his wayward lover Hallie (Capucine). He meets young Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) as the two get off in the crescent city. Teresina (Anne Baxter) gives him a job at her small cafe. In his free time, Dove searches for Hallie and finds her at work as a prostitute in the Doll's House. Dove implores Hallie to return to him but she refuses. When the lecherous lesbian

Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Drama, Classics

John Fante, Edmund Morris

Feb 10, 2004

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Sleazy atmosphere prevails with Fonda and Capucine as brothel babes.

March 8, 2008 Comment
Video-Reviewmaster.com

Sharply uneven, this lurid, intense drams is pseudo Tennessee Williams (say Fugitive Kind), about a Texas drifer and desperate women in his life, but it showcases Stanwyck as a lesbian (one of Hollywood's first) and early signs of Jane Fonda's talent

June 29, 2007 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

best known for that marvelous opening credit sequence created by Saul Bass.

August 2, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Tame by today's standards, but the Saul Bass title sequnce can't be beat.

February 12, 2005 Full Review Source: StaciWilson.com | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Walk on the Wild Side

Lawrence Harvey plays a good-natured gentleman idiot hayseed looking for his ex in 30s New Orleans only to find out she became a whore. Harvey's accent is kind of forced, Capucine as usual relies too much on her looks and Barbara Stanwyck plays her later era typical brassy old broad role--with the exception of her

October 21, 2007
mjgildea

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Wild weird film, some odd casting choices, Anne Baxter as a mexican senorita?, add to the strange appeal of this mongrel of a movie

October 19, 2007
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