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.

• 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)