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Bookmark this pageWalk on the Wild Side (1962)
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A prowling black cat taking a 'walk on the wild side' creates the brilliant promise of Saul Bass' famous credit sequence. The rest just doesn't match it, despite the tale of passion: Laurence Harvey seeking his former love (Capucine), now a high-class 'harlot' for 'Madame' Barbara Stanwyck, who is also in love with her; meanwhile a full-blooded Anne Baxter and a raunchy Jane Fonda succumb to Harvey's moralising Texan. If Dmytryk had only concentrated more on the women instead of the dull central male, this might have been a superb dark work, not just a fairly steamy melodrama. Still, it certainly has its moments.Author: HM
Cast & crew
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Producer: Charles K Feldman
Cast: Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Anne Baxter, Richard Rust, Karl Swenson full cast
Duration: 114 mins
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