Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren. The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda (in one of her first roles, age 24), Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck, and was scripted by John Fante. Nonetheless, it was not well-received at the time. When it premiered, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called it a "lurid, t...
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Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk, adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren. The film had a star-studded cast, including Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda (in one of her first roles, age 24), Anne Baxter, and Barbara Stanwyck, and was scripted by John Fante. Nonetheless, it was not well-received at the time. When it premiered, Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called it a "lurid, tawdry, and sleazy melodrama."
It is said neither Harvey nor Capucine found the other at all appealing. IMDB reports that "Capucine objected to filming kissing scenes with Laurence Harvey, feeling that he was not manly enough for her. Harvey reportedly replied, 'Perhaps if you were more of a woman, I would be more of a man. Honey, kissing you is like kissing the side of a beer bottle.'"
The film's plot is quite different from the book. It starts with Dove and Kitty leaving Texas for New Orleans. Dove is hoping to find his lost love Hallie....
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