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A Side of Life You Never Expected to See on Screen!

Jane Fonda, Laurence Harvey, Barbara Stanwyck and Capucine give exceptional performances in his lurid drama of love and lust set in Depression era New Orleans.

Down-to-earth, good-natured Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey) train hops from Texas to Louisiana with Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) in search of his lost love Hallie (Capucine), a soft-spoken, sophisticated artist. Once in New Orleans, Dove is devastated to discover that she has been reduced to working in the "Doll House", a high society bordello run by ruthless madam Jo Courtney (Barbara Stanwyck). But when Dove tries to take Hallie away he finds himself fighting for his life against bordello thugs and the jealous Jo who wants Hallie for herself.

Based on the novel by Nelson Algren, with an Academy Award nominated title song, a screenplay co-written by Ask the Dust author John Fante and featuring a stunning title sequence by Saul and Elaine Bass, Arrow Films is proud to present this provocative picture for the first time on Blu-ray, in a brand 4K new restoration.

SPECIAL FEATURES
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of a brand new 4K restoration from Sony Pictures
Original lossless mono audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Brand new commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan
Brand new interview with historian and critic Richard Dyer
Brand new interview with Pat Kirkham, co-author of Saul Bass: A Life in Film and Design
Archival interview with director Edward Dmytryk
Stills Gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Scott Saslow

Not a new release, but one I never knew existed because we didn’t have a thread for it

False! See this very informative thread

I saw this movie alone at night when I was 5 or 6 years old and it has haunted me ever since. I really liked Jane Fonda and I didn't know why. (I was 5.) Capucine was my mother because she looked like her. So that night Capucine for all intents and purposes was my mother. And I've had an irrational hatred for Barbara Stanwyck all my life where I wanted someone to stomp her guts out. Actually its perfectly rational, considering.

I wish it had the power and intensity of Nelson Algren’s novel. I completely forgot that John Fante earned a co-writing credit on it.

Could probably go back to not knowing this existed. This is a laughable and toothless Tennessee Williams imitation, one with the grave misfortune of coming out the same year as the not dissimilar and infinitely more accomplished real deal Sweet Bird of Youth too. Everyone is out of their depths here, and despite Letterboxd "reviewers" trying to will gay bonafides into existence (Stanwyck is controlling of Capucine for obviously impure reasons, but that's not exactly subtext and like everything else here, the film doesn't do anything with it because it has no imagination), there is nothing actually perverse in this safe, predictable, and stale melodrama. The final shot of this is a total howler too, these filmmakers truly had no guts whatsoever.

Imagine being Juanita Moore and all you can get is a glorified extra part with a single line a mere three years after your Oscar nom. Truly Hollywood is cruel (kind of the only real theme here, with out of favor stars like Stanwyck and Baxter slumming it)

The Saul Bass title sequence is the only good thing about it.