Return to Mortville
2026-06-23| 14 min
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.
Genres
Documentary
Cast
John Waters
Mink Stole
Susan Lowe
Mary Vivian Pearce
Jean Hill
Edith Massey
Liz Renay
Vincent Peranio
