Return to Mortville

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Return to Mortville (2026)

Documentary · 14m

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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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)

Crew

Editor
Timothy Geraghty, Gabriel Chávez
Producer
Susan Arosteguy

Details

Release date
2026-06-23
Runtime
14m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Production
The Criterion Collection