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(Capucine in the bedroom scene.) 

HenryMakow.com – June 4, 2023

In one scene, when she has regressed, Hailie tells Dove that he must pay for her sexual services, like all her other customers. Dove accepts her offer and hands her a wad of cash. 

by Henry Makow Ph.D

“A Walk on the Wild Side” (1962) is a would-be film noir starring Laurence Harvey who plays “Dove Linkhorn,” a God-fearing Texas cowboy infatuated with a beautiful young woman “Hailie Gerard” (Capucine) who has become a high-priced prostitute at the mob-controlled Doll House brothel in 1930’s New Orleans.

Bosley Crowther of the New York Times was not approving: “Everything in this sluggish picture…smacks of sentimentality and social naiveté. It is incredible that anything as foolish would be made in this day and age….”

 

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