Walk on the Wild Side |
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I was going to tag this “high camp, low energy” until the last 20 minutes or so when it gets even campier and genuinely exciting. For the payoff, I’d recommend this pretty highly for anyone intrigued by any of the following:
1) Anne Baxter in a wig and thick accent as a Mexican;
2) Jane Fonda running around like a wildcat in her second role, emaciated and yet impossibly curvy, overacting and flailing her arms in a bizarre attempt at a southern accent;
3) A high-class New Orleans “doll house” staffed by all manner of daffy and street-smart dames, policed by various thugs including one who’s lost his legs and locomotes on a makeshift scooter;
4) Above all, yes, run screaming to your video store for Barbara Stanwyck as an almost elderly badass lesbian madam who throws many a tantrum and raises many a villainous eyebrow.
It is great good fun, in these latter days of the Code, to watch them dance around Stanwyck’s character, who is blatantly lesbian, and yet they can’t really give her any lines that quite say so. The script is quite bad whole and entire, but its awkward end runs around the Code are genuinely hilarious. None of the breezy nose-thumbing of the best of the earlier Code films, just a lot of awkward caterwauling. Recommended as a curiosity piece.
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