Return to Mortville

The story

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 & crew

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)