Walk on the Wild Side
by Edward Dmytryk
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Actor: Capucine, Don 'Red' Barry, John Anderson, Laurence Harvey, Todd ArmstrongDirector: Edward Dmytryk
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Producer: Charles K. Feldman
Producer: Joseph Lebworth
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Edmund Morris
Writer: John Fante
Writer: Nelson Algren
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Walk on the Wild Side
Movie Review: wild is back to mild
Summary: 3 Stars
what to say, what to say?
saul bass' work on the main title sequence is among his finest--easily! it is singularly striking and dramatic but it is also a little misleading if a viewer were to think that the cat is symbolic of the film's main character, dove linkhorn.
linkhorn, as played by laurence harvey, is actually quite the gentle man. not at all what is expected to follow his wonderful performances in 'room at the top' and 'summer and smoke' as the model sexy anti-hero. harvey, in his own unique way, reminds me of jude law. he's easy on the eye yet complex at the same time. he was definitely not the decorous callow leading man type of his time.
linkhorn is on a trek from texas to find his lady love hallie gerard (capucine). on the way, he encounters kitty twist (jane fonda), a teenage vagrant and together they make the last leg of the trek to new orleans. this is the film's most lively sequence. fonda is magical as kitty. though she had debuted in her godfather's film version of 'tall story' two years before this film, kitty is pretty much her debut. words just can't express how fully invested she is in her performance--not to mention that she is incredibly sexy in her clingy costumes--especially in the scenes where she must deal with being rebuffed by harvey.
fonda and harvey are matched by barbara stanwyck as jo courtney, the cold and ruthless madam of the dollhouse where kitty and hallie work as bar girls. stanwyck's character is one of the least sympathetic women i've ever seen. she thinks nothing of any man in her path--they're pawns and nothing more--and if they get in her way, she will destroy them as easily as pulling from a cigarette. even worse, if they do her bidding, which runs the gamut from spying for her to beating up the unfaithful bar girls, she is contemptuous of them. it is hard to feel sorry for her as she pines for hallie but i did--almost.
but part of the reason why it is hard to feel for stanwyck's jo is because hallie, as played by capucine, is an unrealized woman. she is beautiful in a hawklike way and it stands a marked contrast to the piquant facial features of harvey, fonda and stanwyck. and she is trying to infuse this woman with something because hallie is complicated. but she is confused and that is a real shame. because she has her moments, particularly her death scene. it is very starkly played.
the lack of clarity in capucine's performance comes from the fact that the film was released in 1962. if the film could have flatly stated she, kitty and precious were whores, she would be more understandable. (fonda and the vixenish joanna moore don't have this problem) had it been pre-code or mpaa, produced charles feldman and director edward dimitryk would not have been so ambiguous about the dollhouse or hallie's place there. clarity, not implication, would have been the order with these people, where they live and what they do. then, as much as i like anne baxter, a latina actress could have played teresina and no one would have cared. and maybe, period detail would have been more concise and clearly said 1930s, not the early 1960s mish-mish period films tended to be at that time.
this is a film to see if you like fonda, harvey, stanwyck or saul bass. and this is a film to hear if you like elmer bernstein. they will keep you involved.
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