Film
Return to Mortville
Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.
Overview
Special feature from Criterion’s release of Desperate Living, where writer-director John Waters tours the Baltimore location that served as the site of Mortville, the twisted penal colony inhabited by fugitives, outcasts, and deviants – including hysterical housewife Peggy Gravel and her fed-up housekeeper – and presided over by the despotic Queen Carlotta.
Cast
- John WatersSelf
- Mink StoleSelf (archive footage)
- Susan LoweSelf (archive footage)
- Mary Vivian PearceSelf (archive footage)
- Jean HillSelf (archive footage)
- Edith MasseySelf (archive footage)
- Liz RenaySelf (archive footage)
- Vincent PeranioSelf (archive footage)
