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Walk on the Wild Side(Movie, 1962)

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| 1h 54min | Genre: Drama
Walk on the Wild SideRating: 3.3/5 (with 2020 votes)
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 portra... ()
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About Walk on the Wild Side

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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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 03/20/1962
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Screenwriter: John Fante, Ben Hecht
Film Editor: Harry W. Gerstad
Director of Photography: Joseph MacDonald
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Costume designer: Charles LeMaire
Production Designer: Richard Sylbert
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"La gata negra"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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