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Return to Mortville

Return to Mortville

2026

  • Documentary
1.0

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)

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