On February 21, 1962, Columbia Pictures released Walk on the Wild Side, based on Nelson Algren’s novel A Walk on the Wild Side about a Texan named Dove Linkhorn who goes looking for the woman he loves and lost. He finds her in a New Orleans whorehouse called the Doll House Cafe. This after Elmer Bernstein’s jazzy score meets Saul Bass’s sizzling opening…
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