The Vito Project LGBTQ+ Film Club is at the iconic Cinema Museum London with a series of regular Sunday screenings providing different generations of LGBTQ+ people and friends an alternative safe space to socialise, watch great films and share ideas.
Walk On The Wild Side, Sunday 23 October, 6pm
Presented from a rare 35mm film print from the BFI National Archive. Directed by Edward Dmytryk. Starring Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Fonda, Capucine, Laurence Harvey, Anne Baxter
Set in Depression-era New Orleans, Walk on the Wild Side sees screen legend Barbara Stanwyck playing ruthless madam Jo Courtney, who runs a high society bordello called the “Doll House” with an iron fist. Tragedy ensues when her excessive love for Hallie (Capucine), one of her girls, goes too far. Meanwhile, down-to-earth, good-natured Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey) train hops from Texas to Louisiana with Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) in search of his lost love Hallie – not knowing what has truly become of her.
Based on the scandalous novel by Nelson Algren, the film shimmers with the not-so-veiled lesbianism of Barbara Stanwyck’s madam despite the censors’ efforts to conceal it. Get ready for truly pearl-clutching moments in a world of sweaty and steamy New Orleans boudoirs, a film that legendary critic Bosley Crowther (The New York Times) called a “lurid, tawdry, and sleazy melodrama”.
Book tickets to Walk On The Wild Side: https://ticketlab.co.uk/event/id/12818#/
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (1962) is screening Sunday 23rd October, 6pm (doors open 5pm) (114 mins) at 2 Dugard Way, Renfrew Rd, London SE11 4TH
