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Party Girl. (1958 film) 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. [2] [1]
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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. In the film, Taylor has become rich from getting gangster Lee J. Cobb's hoodlums out of murder raps.
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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. Cobb throws a party to celebrate the event at his penthouse, where showgirl Cyd Charisse performs a sexy dance. Ireland has the hots for Charisse, but she's more interested in Taylor.
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 ...
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Party Girl, que aquí se llamó Chicago, año 30, data de 1958. Es, por tanto, una de las últimas que logró acabar. Y, cosa inusual en este cineasta, es también una de las más maduras y serenas, si no la que más. Casi todas sus películas son vibrantes y fulgurantes, pero imperfectas y desequilibradas.
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.
