Walk on the Wild Side Movie Review 1962

In 1930s New Orleans, a man searches for his long-lost love, finds her working in a whorehouse and fights to save her from the lesbian madame Stanwyck. Melodrama, based only loosely on the Nelson Algren novel and adapted by cult novelist John Fante, with Edmund Morris. Much-troubled on the set, and it shows.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 114 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Tearjerkers, Oldest Profession, Books to Film: Nelson Algren, Lesbians, New Orleans, Period Piece: 1930s

Screenplay

Edmund Morris, John Fante, Ben Hecht

Cast

Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine, Anne Baxter

Cinematography

Joe MacDonald

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Music

Elmer Bernstein

Producer

Charles K. Feldman