The script for Walk on the Wild Side was written by John Fante, an American author of some cult renown, from a book by Nelson Algren (author of The Man with the Golden Arm). It is a total melodrama, about a naive farm boy in love with a sculptress who has become a prostitute. The farm boy is played by the English actor Laurence Harvey, who played upper-crust Americans in a number of films, most notably in The Manchurian Candidate. In Walk on the Wild Side, Harvey is supposedly from Texas, although his accent is more that of a southern gennelmun…