Walk on the Wild Side ★★ 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. 114m/B VHS. Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine, Anne Baxter;
Director:
Edward Dmytryk;
Writer:
Edmund Morris, John Fante, Ben Hecht;
Writer:
Joe MacDonald;
Cameo:
Elmer Bernstein.
