Return to Mortville
June 23, 2026
14 min
✓ Released 129 days ago
Documentary
1.0
User Score
1 votes
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Runtime: 14 min
Top Cast
John Waters
Self
Mink Stole
Self (archive footage)
Susan Lowe
Self (archive footage)
Mary Vivian Pearce
Self (archive footage)
Jean Hill
Self (archive footage)
Edith Massey
Self (archive footage)
Liz Renay
Self (archive footage)
Vincent Peranio
Self (archive footage)
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