The Wild Party (1975 film)
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| Directed by | James Ivory |
| Produced by | Ismail Merchant |
| Written by | Walter Marks (base on the poem by Joseph Moncure March) |
| Starring | James Coco Raquel Welch Perry King Tiffany Bolling Royal Dano David Dukes |
| Music by | Walter Marks Louis St. Louis (song) |
| Cinematography | Walter Lassally |
| Distributed by | AIP (theatrical cut version) MGM (DVD, directors cut) |
| Release date(s) | March 1975 |
| Running time | 109 min. (director's cut) |
| Language | English |
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The Wild Party is a 1975 Merchant Ivory Productions film directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and starring James Coco and Raquel Welch.
An aging silent movie comic star of the 1920s named Jolly Grimm attempts a comeback by staging a party to show his new film. But the party turns into a sexual free-for-all and the comic ends up killing his mistress, Queenie, and an actor who has taken an interest in her.
The film was loosely based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March and filmed in Riverside, California. The poem was also made into two musicals, a Broadway show composed by Michael John LaChiusa which followed the poem very closely and an off-Broadway production composed by Andrew Lippa which took some artistic liberties with the poem but still less than this movie.
Elements of the life of silent-film star Fatty Arbuckle also appeared to at least partly influence the film.
A dance scene was choreographed by Patricia Birch.
[edit] Cast
- James Coco as Jolly Grimm
- Raquel Welch as Queenie
- Perry King as Dale Sword
- David Dukes as James Morrison
- Tiffany Bolling as Kate
- Royal Dano as Tex
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