Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, and starring Laurence Harvey, Capucine, Jane Fonda, Anne Baxter and Barbara Stanwyck. It was adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by American author Nelson Algren. The film was scripted by John Fante. While it passed its censors, it was an adult film noir with explicit overtones and subject matter. It walks its audience through the lives and relationships between adults (mostly women) engaged in commercial prostitution at a stylish New Orleans brothel. The brothel is run by Madam Jo (Stanwyck), who combines toughness with a motherly tenderness toward her "girls". Stanwyck returned to the big screen after a five year hiatus spent mostly on television. Life wrote "Jane Fonda por