{"id":85762,"date":"2022-07-25T17:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T00:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=85762"},"modified":"2022-07-25T23:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T06:25:21","slug":"walk-on-the-wild-side-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=85762","title":{"rendered":"Walk on the Wild Side (1962)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Did you ever hear of bread? I butter yours.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster-193x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-85764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster-193x300.png 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster-82x128.png 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster-173x270.png 173w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Poster.png 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter hitching a ride with a teenage runaway (Jane Fonda), a Texas farmer (Laurence Harvey) lands in New Orleans and receives support from a widowed cafe owner (Anne Baxter) before searching for his former lover (Capucine), who is now a prostitute working for a lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anne Baxter Films<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Stanwyck Films<\/li>\n<li>Capucine Films<\/li>\n<li>Edward Dmytryk Films<\/li>\n<li>Jane Fonda Films<\/li>\n<li>Laurence Harvey Films<\/li>\n<li>Prostitutes and Gigolos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;brooding, once shocking adaptation of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Walk_on_the_Wild_Side\">Nelson Algren&#8217;s novel<\/a>&#8221; is &#8220;very watchable&#8221; but he argues that &#8220;the actors, though good, are extremely stiff, as if they feared moving about and not being able to find the floor markers on the dark sets.&#8221; (Peary exaggerates; not that many scenes are darkly lit.) He notes that &#8220;only hip-swinging Jane Fonda, as a wildcat tamed by Stanwyck&#8217;s threats, projects any energy,&#8221; but &#8220;it&#8217;s difficult to tell if her performance is correct or completely wrong since her style is so much more expressive than that of the other stars.&#8221; (Is &#8220;correct&#8221; really the right term to use for a performance?) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-1024x542.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-1024x542.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam-511x270.png 511w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda-Glam.png 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peary adds that while &#8220;it&#8217;s unusual to see a film with four solid female parts,&#8221; &#8220;so many of their feelings &#8212; those that explain who they are &#8212; are kept bottled inside, as if the many scriptwriters (including Clifford Odets and Ben Hecht) were either afraid or incapable of expressing them or unable to because of censorship problems.&#8221; Indeed, this movie is often cited as a classic example of everything wrong with studio filmmaking before the Production Code was finally loosened; it was lambasted thusly by Bosley Crowther in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1962\/02\/22\/archives\/laurence-harvey-and-capucine-head-castsatan-never-sleeps.html\"><em>The New York Times<\/em><\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything in this sluggish picture&#8230; smacks of sentimentality and social na\u00efvet\u00e9. It is incredible that anything as foolish would be made in this day and age. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, the film&#8217;s production was infamously challenging and heated as well; as described in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/3799\/walk-on-the-wild-side#articles-reviews?articleId=76250\">TCM&#8217;s article<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Needless to say, the shoot was something of a pitched battle. Feldman had promised Dmytryk that he would leave the country during filming so that he wouldn&#8217;t interfere. Then he hung around anyway, sending in his unwanted script revisions and insisting that Capucine be dressed in the latest Pierre Cardin designs, even though the film was set and costumed in the &#8217;30s. Harvey quarreled with Dmytryk incessantly. When the actor stalked off the set and held up production for over an hour, Stanwyck tore into him so vehemently, he was never late again. At least they both could agree on their dislike of Capucine. When the former model complained that Harvey&#8217;s kisses weren&#8217;t manly enough for her, he countered, &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-1024x544.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing-508x270.png 508w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Kissing.png 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ouch! Speaking of Stanwyck, her character&#8217;s thinly veiled &#8220;interest&#8221; in Capucine at least keeps things a little intriguing, even if her role is underdeveloped. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-1024x559.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-1024x559.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-128x70.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-768x419.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust-495x270.png 495w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Bust.png 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane Fonda&#8217;s enthusiastic performance as Kitty Twist<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-1024x547.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-1024x547.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-128x68.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2-505x270.png 505w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Fonda2.png 1301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Barbara Stanwyck as Jo<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-1024x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-1024x531.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-128x66.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-768x398.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle-521x270.png 521w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Stanwyck-Triangle.png 1294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anne Baxter as Teresina<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"335\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-128x67.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter-516x270.png 516w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Baxter.png 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Joseph MacDonald&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-1024x552.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-85765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-128x69.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror-501x270.png 501w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Walk-on-the-Wild-Side-Mirror.png 1297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though fans of the stars will likely be curious to check it out. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056671\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1962\/02\/22\/archives\/laurence-harvey-and-capucine-head-castsatan-never-sleeps.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/3799\/walk-on-the-wild-side#articles-reviews?articleId=76250\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1111wild.html\">DVD Savant<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Did you ever hear of bread? I butter yours.&#8221; Synopsis: After hitching a ride with a teenage runaway (Jane Fonda), a Texas farmer (Laurence Harvey) lands in New Orleans and receives support from a widowed cafe owner (Anne Baxter) before searching for his former lover (Capucine), who is now a prostitute working for a lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Anne Baxter Films Barbara Stanwyck Films Capucine Films Edward Dmytryk Films Jane Fonda Films Laurence Harvey Films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=85762\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85762"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85848,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85762\/revisions\/85848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}