Return to Mortville

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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 Waters, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Edith Massey

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