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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.
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John Waters Returns to Mortville | DESPERATE LIVING
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- Jun 23, 2026
- 14m
- English
- Released
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