Walk on the Wild Side
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.
Plot
In the Great Depression, Dove Linkhorn and Kitty Tristram meet on the road in Texas as each travels separately to New Orleans. They decide to travel together, hitchhiking and hopping freight trains. Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie Gerard, and he is uninterested when Kitty comes on to him. After Kitty steals from the New Orleans-area café where she and Dove stop for a meal, he leaves her and makes things right with the owner Teresina Vidaverri. She gives Dove a job at the café and a place to stay while he searches for Hallie. He finds her working at the Doll House, an upscale French Quarter bordello, where Jo Courtney is the madam.
More details
author | Ben Hecht John Fante |
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contentLocation | New Orleans |
director | Edward Dmytryk |
editor | Harry W. Gerstad |
events | prostitution |
genre | drama |
keywords | arrest confine freight trains french quarter great depression help hitchhike kill lesbian relationship lost love mann act married life on the road sculpt statutory rape suspect transporting the underage kitty across state lines for immoral purposes |
musicBy | Elmer Bernstein |
producer | Charles K. Feldman |
publisher | Columbia Pictures |
recordedAt | New Orleans |
theme | lgbt-related |