Search results
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.
Party Girl (1958) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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. In the film, Taylor has become rich from getting gangster Lee J. Cobb's hoodlums out of murder raps.
- Robert Taylor
Party Girl is a (1958) American film noir, directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse and Lee J. Cobb. It was the last film Taylor did under contract for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Overview. Slick lawyer Thomas Farrell has made a career of defending mobsters in trials. 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.
In Party Girl, director Nicholas Ray combines explicit blood-and-guts violence with extravagantly staged dance sequences in vivid Technicolor to create a riveting (yet quirky) piece of dissonant cinema that stands alone in the noir cycle. Robert Taylor stars as high-priced attorney Thomas Farrell, who’s made mountains of money defending mob ...
Party Girl (1958) A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss. 181 1 h 38 min 1958. X-Ray 13+. Drama · Campy · Dark · Strange. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $3.09. Buy. SD $9.99. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Redeem a gift card or promotion code. Details.
