Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck, Capucine

A drifter travels to Texas to find his old girlfriend, only to find her working in a brothel run by a Madam, who also has a love interest in the girl. The Madam becomes consumed with jealousy and the ...( read more  read more... )results become tragic.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 54 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Release Date: January 1, 1962

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DVD Release Date: February 10, 2004

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  • October 26, 2007
    Lawrence Harvey plays a good-natured gentleman idiot hayseed looking for his ex in 30s New Orleans only to find out she became a whore. Harvey's accent is kind of forced, Capucine as usual relies too much on her looks and Barbara Stanwyck plays her later era typical brassy old br...( read more)oad role--with the exception of her character being gay. The only standout is a young Jane Fonda who was as every bit good as she was foxy. Although she's got maybe 20 minutes of screen time Walk on the Wild Side is totally worth it for her.
  • July 5, 2009
    I will NOT see a Movie that has this Commie, Traitor, BITCH in it.
    They don't have a LOW enough rating for her.
    She can rot in the Hanoi Hilton, for what she did to Our troops during Vietnam.

    BURN BITCH, BURN
  • May 18, 2009
    jane fonda rocks this film as the nubile vagrant turned prostitute in 1930s new orleans. she is in good company with laurence harvey as the gentle yet tough romancer dove, barbara stanwyck as closeted lesbian madam jo and joanna moore as the fragile hooker precious. this film asl...( read more)o has a great opening sequence by title master saul bass and a fun jazz inflected score by elmer bernstein.
  • February 14, 2009
    High class women are such seductive sirens
  • November 3, 2008
    This is a good movie
  • November 16, 2007
    another great movie of Jane Fonda, I remeber watching this movie with my aunt. Went my aunt and I get together we get our movie and watch it, and have the same conversation again!!! LOL
  • October 19, 2007
    Wild weird film, some odd casting choices, Anne Baxter as a mexican senorita?, add to the strange appeal of this mongrel of a movie
  • August 21, 2007
    Ooooohhh. Love the poster. Love the title.
  • July 3, 2007
    At one end of this southern spectrum we have Laurence Harvey and Barbara Stanwyck fighting over the lovely Capucine, who would rather just be left alone to her whoring around New Orleans.
    Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum we have Stanwyck's legless husband rolling ar...( read more)ound the French Quarter alone on his skateboard, and Jane Fonda, the new whore on the block, who, deep down inside, just wants to be loved.
    Add some gin, sin and some sex, stir with the barrel of a loaded gun, and.. well, what do ya expect. it's the south.

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