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.

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John Waters

Self

Mink Stole

Self (archive footage)

Susan Lowe

Self (archive footage)

Mary Vivian Pearce

Self (archive footage)

Jean Hill

Self (archive footage)

Edith Massey

Self (archive footage)

Liz Renay

Self (archive footage)

Vincent Peranio

Self (archive footage)

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