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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.
Genre: Documentary
Cast: John Waters, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Edith Massey
Crew: Timothy Geraghty (Editor), Gabriel Chávez (Editor), Susan Arosteguy (Producer), Peter Becker (Executive Producer), Kim Hendrickson (Executive Producer), Fumiko Takagi (Executive Producer)
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Runtime: 14 minutes
Quality: HD
Release: Jun 23, 2026
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Language: English
