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At a party for mob boss Rico Angelo, he meets chorus girl Vicki Gaye, who accepted $100 to attend the party and another $400 from another gangster, Louis Canetto, from his gambling winnings. Farrell gives her a ride home, each expressing disapproval at the way the other makes money.
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In Party Girl (1958), an unusual blend of film noir and musical, Robert Taylor plays a crooked lawyer loosely based on real-life Dixie Davis, the lawyer for mob boss Dutch Schultz who later turned informant.
- Robert Taylor
It's not until he meets a lovely showgirl at a mob party that he realizes that there's more to life than winning trials. Farrell tries to quit the racket, but mob boss Rico Angelo threatens to hurt the showgirl if Farrell leaves him.
Purchase Party Girl (1958) on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Iconoclastic director Nicholas Ray helmed this unusual film noir musical based on the life of Dixie Davis, the lawyer for mob boss Dutch Schultz who later turned informant.
Party Girl is a 1958 American film noir directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse and Lee J. Cobb. Filmed in CinemaScope, it was the last film Charisse did for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the next-to-last film Taylor did for the studio; they were MGM's last two remaining major contract stars.
Robert Taylor stars in director Nicholas Ray's Party Girl as the traditional Ray anti-hero: a criminal lawyer who's a little bit of both. Fronting for Chicago gang boss Lee J. Cobb during the late 1920s, Taylor manages to get Cobb-underling John Ireland off on a murder rap.
